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The Destructive Impact of a Positive Team-Building Intervention : R. Wayne Boss and Mark L. Mcconkie, Group and Organization Management 1981, 6: 45-56.

Questions that apply to article:

1. Why have team–building interventions?
2. What is involved in an intervention?
3. What were the successes and failures of the team-building intervention in this article?

Teamwork Through Team Building: Face-to-Face to Online : Julie Staggers, Susan Garcia and Ed Nagelhout, Business Communication Quarterly 2008, 71: 472-487.

Questions that apply to article:

1. What is the biggest challenge the authors face with any group project in their face-to-face writing course?
2. Explain the variety of team-building exercises the authors designed to help each group move through phases?
3. What did the authors have to add or change to their team-building exercises in online classes?  Why?

Integrated Theoretical Model for Building Effective Teams : Jerry W. Gilley, M. Lane Morris, Alina M. Waite, Tabitha Coates and Abigail Veliquette, Advances in Developing Human Resources 2010, 12: 7-28.

Questions that apply to article:

1. What questions should leaders address before putting employees in teams?
2. Explain the following components of team building – goals of team building, types of teams, purpose of teams, team effectiveness strategy, selection criteria, and characteristics of effective teams.
3. Explain the stages of team development.
4. What can affect team development?

Collaborative Public Management: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?: Rosemary O’Leary and Nidhi Vij, The American Review of Public Administration 2012, 42 (5): 507-522.

Questions that apply to article:

1. What are the differences between collaboration, coordination, and cooperation?
2. What does it mean to “Think DaVinci”?
3. What are the major challenges of collaborative networks?

Work Group Effort and Rewards: The Roles of Organizational and Social Power as Context: Randy Hodson, Organization Studies 2010, 31 (7): 895-916.

Questions that apply to article:

1. Compare and contrast craft work groups and management-initiated teams.
2. How does the use of management-initiated teams affect job satisfaction?