Steps in Successful Team Building - What You Need to Know: Definitions, Best Practices, Benefits and Practical Solutions

Steps in Successful Team Building - What You Need to Know: Definitions, Best Practices, Benefits and Practical Solutions Synopsis

Team Building refers to a wide range of activities, presented to businesses, schools, sports teams, religious or nonprofit organizations designed for improving team performance. Team building is pursued via a variety of practices, and can range from simple bonding exercises to complex simulations and multi-day team building retreats designed to develop a team (including group assessment and group-dynamic games), usually falling somewhere in between. It generally sits within the theory and practice of organizational development, but can also be applied to sports teams, school groups, and other contexts. This book is your one-stop, ultimate resource for Steps in Successful Team Building. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links covering all aspects of Steps in Successful Team Building: Team building, Affect measures, Neal Ashkanasy, Biodata, Cognitive complexity, Cognitive Process Profile (CPP), Communication Quotient, Counterproductive work behavior, Cultural intelligence, Stewart Donaldson, Embeddedness, Emotional exhaustion, Gay friendly, Group behaviour, Happiness at work, Industrial and organizational psychology, Interruption science, Job performance, Leader-Member Exchange Theory (LMX), Malicious compliance, MARS model of individual behavior, Onboarding, OPQ, Organisation climate, Organizational commitment, Organizational identification, Perceived organizational support, Perceived psychological contract violation, Positive behavior support, Positive organizational behavior, Positivity/negativity ratio, Power process, Professional identification, Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work, Transactional leadership, Transactive memory, Transformational leadership, Work engagement, Workplace spirituality This book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of Steps in Successful Team Building. It reduces the risk of your time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of Steps in Successful Team Building with the objectivity of experienced professionals. Unique, authoritative, and wide-ranging, it offers practical and strategic advice for managers, business owners and students worldwide.

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