The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Team Working and Collaborative Processes - by Eduardo Salas & Ramon Rico & Jonathan Passmore

About the Book

"Welcome to this sixth book in the Wiley Blackwell Industrial and Organisational Psychology series. This title in the series focus is on teams and collaborative processes at work and builds on the previous five titles in the series on leadership and change, coaching and mentoring, training and development, health and safety and positive psychology. Collaboration has for centuries been a key feature of success for any enterprise. Since the industrial revolution and rise of large-scale manufacturing of the nineteenth century, through to the development of global corporations of the twenty first century, team working and collaboration both within and across the organisation boundary is essential. Teams are the only way NASA, Google or IKEA can operate to deliver their products, services or mission. Understanding how to recruit, develop and manage teams is what this book is all about. This title is however just one of eight books in this Series totally over 200 chapters and 2 million words on Industrial and Organisational Psychology, and we believe this is the largest single contribution to the field. We believe this series differs in four ways from other titles in the field"--

Book Synopsis

A state-of-the-art psychological perspective on team working and collaborative organizational processes

This handbook makes a unique contribution to organizational psychology and HRM by providing comprehensive international coverage of the contemporary field of team working and collaborative organizational processes. It provides critical reviews of key topics related to teams including design, diversity, leadership, trust processes and performance measurement, drawing on the work of leading thinkers including Linda Argote, Neal Ashkanasy, Robert Kraut, Floor Rink and Daan van Knippenberg.

From the Back Cover

"This broad handbook written by acclaimed international scholars covers the essential set of teamwork topics - and beyond. Highly recommended."

Steve W. J. Kozlowski
Professor of Organizational Psychology, Michigan State University

"Teamwork is not going out of fashion and managers will continue to recognize that they need knowledge to help them develop it. This volume offers a great variety of perspectives on teamwork, and its broad international distribution of authors is impressive and to be welcomed."

Dean Tjosvold
Emeritus Professor, Department of Management, Lingnan University

This authoritative Wiley Blackwell Handbook in Organizational Psychology focuses on team working and collaborative processes. The editors have drawn on their collective experience in collating thematically structured material from leading thinkers and practitioners based in the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

Coinciding with growing international interest in the applications of psychology to organizations, the work offers a unique depth of analysis from an explicitly psychological perspective. Each chapter includes a detailed literature review that offers academics, researchers, scientist-practitioners, and students an invaluable frame of reference. Coverage is built around competencies set forth by regulatory bodies including the APA and BPS, and includes team design, team membership change, team cohesion, creativity in teams, and team performance measurement.

About the Author

Eduardo Salas is Allyn R. & Gladys M. Cline Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychological Sciences at Rice University. Dr. Salas' research interests are in uncovering what facilitates teamwork and team effectiveness in organizations; how and why does team training work; how to optimize simulation-based training; how to create a culture of safety; how to design, implement and evaluate training & development systems and in generating evidence-based guidance for those in practice. He has co-authored over 450 journal articles and book chapters, has co-edited 35 books an authored a book on team training.

Ramón Rico is an associate professor of Management and Organizations at the University of Western Australia (Australia). His expertise interlocks organizational behavior, social psychology and team science. His research currently focuses on the role of team cognition and team coordination processes on both, team and leadership adaptation; team diversity management; and the coordinative and motivational bases of effective multiteam systems.

Jonathan Passmore (Series Editor) is the Professor of Coaching and Behavioural Change at Henley Business School, University of Reading and a professor of psychology at the University of Evora, Portugal. He is a chartered psychologist, holds five degrees, and has an international reputation for his work in coaching and leadership, including being listed by Thinkers50 as one of the top 10 coaches in the world. He has published widely books on the themes of leadership, personal development and change, and served as editor for the Association for Coaching book series. He speaks widely at conferences across the world and has published over 100 journal papers and book chapters.