Realizing that business people take on different roles throughout their careers - as well as in their day-to-day work - Making the Team: A Guide for Managers, Third Edition was written with two audiences in mind: leaders and team members. For the leader, the text offers in-depth, practical discussions on how to design teams to function optimally and maximize their potential. For team members, the author focuses on the skills necessary to be an effective and productive team member.

Reflecting the latest advances in teamwork and group behavior research, every chapter in the timely third edition has been updated with new information, fresh research, updated examples, and more. The new edition reflects groundbreaking advances in theory and research, as well as recent calamities — such as Hurricane Katrina, corporate fraud, terrorist attempts — that have impacted the corporate world, providing students with the latest information available about the headlines they’re reading today.

New Research: The author equips managers with the most up-to-date research in a digestible fashion — keeping the book completely current and true to its strong research focus and theory-driven approach. The updated research includes information from the Kellogg School of Management's ongoing survey of executives over the past five years. While the survey in the first edition reported the responses of 149 managers and executives, the third edition has a database of more than 800 team managers. In addition, more than 194 new research studies have been cited.

More case studies: Packed with real-world examples and illustrations of effective — as well as ineffective — teamwork, the third edition includes more than 95 new case studies and examples of actual company teams, offering an insider's view of practical do's and don'ts. Additionally, each chapter has a new opening example, while many chapter concepts and techniques are supplemented with illustrations and examples from real teams, both contemporary and historical. These serve to illustrate how many of the concepts in the book are generated from real-world situations.

Making the Team shows students the "big picture" by demonstrating how the team fits into the larger organization. Equipping managers for the long term, the text also highlights developments and trends that may affect how managers structure their teams in the future.

Its comprehensive coverage provides readers with a solid understanding of how teams function. It offers thorough discussions of the basics of teamwork — performance, productivity, rewards - as well as helps students comprehend the synergy, factors, and issues going on inside the team itself, like team formation, identity, communication, diversity, conflict resolution, learning, creativity, decision-making, and more. The book also explores such external dynamics as networking, leadership styles, coaching, interteam relations, the role of information technology, virtual teams, teaming across distances and cultural differences, and much more.

Product Details

Retail Price: $116.00 PMB Price: $89.00
ISBN: 978-0131861350
Publication Date: September 2007
Publisher: Pearson
Author: Leigh L. Thompson
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Pages:  496