Michael A. West & Dean Tjosvold 
The Essentials of Teamworking [PDF ebook] 
International Perspectives

About the Editors ix
List of Contributors xiii
Preface xv
1 Cooperation and Conflict: A Personal Perspective on the History of the Social Psychological Study of Conflict Resolution 1
Morton Deutsch
2 Trust, Identity, and Attachment: Promoting Individuals’ Cooperation in Groups 37
M. Audrey Korsgaard, Susan E. Brodt, and Harry J. Sapienza
3 A Contingency Theory of Task Conflict and Performance in Groups and Organizational Teams 55
Carsten K. W. De Dreu and Laurie R. Weingart
4 The Role of Cognition in Managing Conflict to Maximize Team Effectiveness: A Team Member Schema Similarity Approach 71
Joan R. Rentsch and Jacqueline A. Zelno
5 Skill Acquisition and the Development of a Team Mental Model: An Integrative Approach to Analysing Organizational Teams, Task, and Context 91
Janice Langan-Fox
6 Training for Cooperative Group Work 131
David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson
7 Team-based Organization: Creating an Environment for Team Success 149
Cheryl L. Harris and Michael M. Beyerlein
8 Team Decision Making in Organizations 173
Mary Ann Glynn and Pamela S. Barr
9 Social Loafing in Teams 191
Christel G. Rutte
10 Power in Groups and Organizations 209
Peter T. Coleman and Maxim Voronov
11 Managing the Risk of Learning: Psychological Safety in Work Teams 235
Amy C. Edmondson
12 Cooperation and Teamwork for Innovation 257
Michael A. West and Giles Hirst
13 When East and West Meet: Effective Teamwork across Cultures 281
Kwok Leung, Lin Lu, and Xiangfen Liang
Index 303

Michael A. West is Professor of Organizational Psychology
and Head of Research at Aston Business School. He graduated from
the University of Wales in 1973 and received his Ph D in 1977. He
then spent a year working in the coal mines of South Wales before
beginning his academic career. He has authored, edited or co-edited
14 books including Effective Teamwork (2004, Blackwell), the first
edition of which has been translated into 12 languages, The Secrets
of Successful Team Management (2004, Duncan Baird), Developing Team
Based Organisations (2004, Blackwell), the International Handbook
of Organizational Teamwork and Cooperative Working 2003, Wiley),
Effective Top Management Teams (2001, Blackhall), Developing
Creativity in Organizations (197, BPS), and the Handbook of
Workgroup Psychology (1996, Wiley). He has also published over 150
articles for scientific and practitioner publications, as well as
chapters in scholarly books. He is a Fellow of the British
Psychological Society, the American Psychological Association
(APA), the APA Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology,
and the royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures
and Commerce. His areas of research interest are team and
organizational innovation and effectiveness, particularly in
relation to the Organisation of health services.
Dean Tjosvold is Chair Professor of Management, Lingnan
University in Hong Kong. After graduating from Princeton
University, he earned his Master’s Degree in History and his Ph.D.
in the social psychology of organization at the University of
Minnesota, both in 1972. He has taught at Pennsylvania State
University, Simon Fraser University, and was visiting professor at
the National University of Singapore in 1983-84, the State
University of Groningen in The Netherlands, 1991-92, Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology, 1994-95, and the City
University of Hong Kong, 1995-96.
In 1992, Simon Fraser University awarded him a University
Professorship for his research contributions. He received the
American Education Research Association’s Outstanding Contribution
to Cooperative Learning Award in 1998. His review of cooperative
and competitive conflict was re cognized as the best article in
Applied Psychology: An International review for 1998. He is past
president of the International Association of Conflict Management.
He has published over 200 articles on managing conflict,
cooperation and competition decision making, power, and the other
management issues. He has served on several editorial boards,
including the Academy of Management Review, Journal of
Organizational Behavior, Journal of Management, and Small Group
Research.