Learning for Success How Team Learning Behaviors Can Help Project Teams to Increase the Performance of Their Projects

by Savelsbergh, Chantal; Storm, Peter; Kuipers, Ben

• ISBN13: 9781935589051
• ISBN10: 1935589059
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-01
• Publisher: Project Management Institute

Summary

Learning For Success explores the relationship between team performance and team learning based both on theory and on real-world projects. Authors Peter Storm, Chantal Savelsbergh and Ben Kuipers contend that most projects have two different, but complementary, aims: to perform and to learn. Learning enhances the team's and project's performance, but good performance also makes the team want to become even better - which compels the team members to actively seek ways of improving. So what affects team learning, positively or negatively, and what can team leaders and managers do about it? Read how work-related (or role) stress plays a major part. In particular:

Table of Contents

Executive Summary	p. 1
Why investigate team learning?	p. 1
What did we investigate?	p. 2
How did we execute the research?	p. 3
What are the results?	p. 4
How can project teams and their team leaders apply these results?	p. 5
Introduction	p. 7
The research project	p. 7
Structure of this report	p. 8
Project Success	p. 11
Project success criteria	p. 11
Project success factors	p. 13
The project team as a success factor	p. 14
Role Stress	p. 15
The nature of role stress	p. 15
Role stress and team performance	p. 15
Team Learning	p. 17
Knowledge exchange and learning in projects	p. 17
Team learning	p. 17
Team Leadership	p. 19
Team leadership	p. 19
Leadership styles	p. 19
Leadership that promotes team learning	p. 19
Research Method and Results	p. 23
Aims and research model	p. 23
Method	p. 23
Results	p. 26
Conclusions and Implications	p. 33
Conclusions	p. 33
Theoretical implications	p. 34
Practical implications	p. 35
Author Contact Details	p. 39
Research Sample	p. 41
Approach	p. 41
Projects	p. 41
Team composition	p. 41
References	p. 45
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