This volume addresses the need to focus on temporal adaptations of teams. Modern organizations have been relying on teams more often to cope with the changing economic and technological climate. An increase in the use of teams has led to more team research throughout the fields of cognitive science, human factors, organizational psychology, assessment, and behavioral science. How teams grow and change is important for their performance and their members’ satisfaction with their work; therefore, the attention that this book lends to teams’ temporal factors is much deserved.
Editors Eduardo Salas, Lauren B. Landon and William B. Vessey have gathered some of the best and brightest team researchers to contribute to this book. The various chapters offer readers background information, temporal measurement tools, and implications for research and practice. The book covers such interesting perspectives as team leadership, trust, cultural implications, and temporal implications in long-duration, extreme situations, including space exploration. This book serves as a resource to researchers who study teams, managers who lead teams, and those who work in teams.
PART ICONCEPTUAL FOUNDATION OF TIMING FOR TEAMS
TEAM COMPOSITION OVER TIME; Suzanne T. Bell and Neal Outland
IT IS ABOUT TIME: TEMPORAL CONSIDERATIONS OF TEAM ADAPTATION; Deanna M. Kennedy and M. Travis Maynard
METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IN MEASURING COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS OVER TIME; Colin Dingler, Alina A. von Davier and Jiangang Hao
LOW LEVEL PREDICTORS OF TEAM DYNAMICS: A NEURODYNAMIC APPROACH; Ronald H. Stevens, Trysha L. Galloway and Ann Willemsen-Dunlap
PART IISPECIAL TOPICS IN TEAMS OVER TIME
THE IMPORTANCE OF TIME IN TEAM LEADERSHIP RESEARCH; C. Shawn Burke, Eleni Georganta, and Claudia Hernandez
TEAM TRUST DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OVER TIME; Trevor N. Fry, Kyi Phyu Nyein, and Jessica L. Wildman
KEY FACTORS AND THREATS TO TEAM DYNAMICS IN LONG-DURATION EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS; Peter G. Roma and Wendy L. Bedwell
COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING AND TEAM DEVELOPMENT: EXTENDING THE MACROCOGNITION IN TEAMS MODEL THROUGH CONSIDERATIONS OF THE TEAM LIFE CYCLE; Stephen M. Fiore and Eleni Georganta
THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON TEAM DYNAMICS; Jennifer Feitosa, Lorena Solis, and Rebecca Grossman
LEXICON AS A PREDICTOR OF TEAM DYNAMICS; Tripp Driskell, James E. Driskell, and Eduardo Salas
PART IIITEAM PROCESSES OVER TIME: A LOOK FORWARD
CHALLENGES AND NEW DIRECTIONS IN EXAMINING TEAM COHESION OVER TIME; Caitlin E. McClurg, Jaimie L. Chen, Alexandra Petruzzelli and Amanda L. Thayer
TEMPORAL DYNAMICS IN MULTITEAM SYSTEMS: AN INTEGRATIVE PERSPECTIVE FOR FUTURE RESEARCH & PRACTICE; Michelle L. Flynn, Dana C. Verhoeven, and Marissa L. Shuffler
Dr. Landon is the Team Risk Portfolio Scientist in the Human Factors and Behavioral Performance Element, in NASA’s Human Research Program. Her research is focused in the area of teams in extreme environments, examining the influence of isolation, confinement, and asynchronous communication as it affects team performance and well-being. Current work considers spaceflight team skills training, the interactive effects of fatigue and team functioning, and coordination across a complex multi-team system. Dr. Landon supports team skills training development and implementation for both flight controllers and astronauts at NASA Johnson Space Center. She earned a Ph.D. in Industrial Organizational Psychology from the University of Oklahoma, and has held research and training development positions at the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.