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Me and Us: Differential Relationships Among Goal Setting Training, Efficacy and Effectiveness at the Individual and Team Level

In this paper by Cristina B. Gibson, efficacy-effectiveness relationships were examined for individual nurses and nursing teams who were either trained or untrained in goal-setting.

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Intercultural Analysis of the Meaning of Teamwork: Evidence from Six Multinational Corporations

This paper by Mary E. Zellmer-Bruhn develops a conceptual framework to explain variance in the meaning of teamwork across national and organizational cultures.

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Identifying Strategic Leaders

Kathleen K. Reardon and Alan Rowe argue that the key component of successful leadership now and in the next century is a responsiveness to continuous change. Such responsiveness requires suspending the illusion of control and denial of uncertainty psychologists tell us are characteristic of human thinking.

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Human Resource Management at Two Toyota Transplants

Paul A. Adler explains that there is broad consensus that the superlative efficiency and quality performance of Japanese auto “transplants” in the US is in large measure due to their combination of the “lean” production systems and distinctive human resource management practices.

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Collaboration in the Virtual Organization

Susan G. Cohen and Don Mankin believe that collaboration is the key to effectiveness in the virtual organization.

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Making Teams Work: Implications for Consulting Practice

Susan G. Cohen and Diane E. Bailey discuss how the use of teams has increased dramatically in response to competitive pressures for speed, costs, quality, and innovation.

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We Can’t Get There Unless We Know Where We Are Going

In this chapter, S. Cohen, S. Mohrman, and A. Mohrman closely examine one set of factors that are critical for knowledge work team effectiveness –how organizations set and communicate direction for teams.

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Guanxi in Vertical Dyads: Evidence from Taiwan and the PRC

Katherine R. Xin, Jing-Lih Farh, Bor-Shiuan Cheng, and Anne S. Tsui examined the impact of two related concepts, relational demography and guanxi (defined as particularistic ties between individuals), on organizational commitment, quality of leader-member exchange (LMX), and performance in two empirical studies conducted in Taiwan and the PRC.

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Effective Structuring of Product Development Groups: An Information Processing Perspective

This paper by Paul Emmanuelides and Philip H. Birnbaum-More applies an information-processing approach to the study of product development projects.

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New Product Development Throughout Time: The Japanese Portion of a Cross-National Study

In a comprehensive study of Japanese and U.S. electronic firm product development practices, the authors (Russel W. Wright, Lillian C. Wright, Phillip H. Birnbaum-More, and Ryo Hirasawa) find significant differences between countries in the inputs, process, outputs, and other differences associated with first to market and fast responding firms.

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When Does Culture Matter?

Past research has shown that national culture does matter- it affects people’s behavior- but research has left open the question of when culture matters. Martha L. Maznevski, Cristina B. Gibson, and Bradley L. Kirkman examine culture’s effects on four types of individual outcomes, and propose moderators at three levels of analysis.

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Linking Diversity and Effectiveness: The Relationship Between Cultural Diversity and Organizational Outcomes

This report by Cristina B. Gibson is the first step in a program of research concerning the impact of diversity.

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