 | Increasing the Odds for High-Performance Teams: Lessons Learned Subjects: Teams in the workplace; Teams in the workplace -- Management -- Case studies; Management -- Employee participation -- Case studies; Performance -- Case studies; Organizational behavior -- Case studies; Have you ever wondered why some work teams greatly out-perform others within the same organizational settings? Have you questioned whether work teams from very different sectors of the economy and society achieved a high performance level by using similar means? Have you considered what you or others might do to help eams increase their chances of becoming truly high performing? Increasing the Odds for High-Performance Teams is written for the business leader who is inquisitive but busy--who seeks new lessons about high team performance but wants them to be succinct and efficient. Arlen Leholm is Dean and Director of Cooperative Extension for the University of Wisconsin. Raymond Vlasin is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus for Michigan State University. He was also director of the Natural Resource Economics Division of Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a Staff Economist for the House Public Works Committee. |
