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Team Productivity

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Team Performance in Health Care

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Productivity includes both the strategies teams use to achieve their goals and fulfill their mission and their accomplishments. In productive teams, members are collaborative, interdependent, and complete tasks efficiently. Teams or natural work groups that fail to maximize productivity often are characterized by questionable or poor processes (Steiner, 1972). The survival of today’s and tomorrow’s teams depends more and more upon their ability to be productive, and while improving process is important to this end, positive outcomes and high productivity levels are key (Brannick, Salas, & Prince, 1997). As a result, teams in health care settings are developing strategies to maximize productivity, document outcomes, and ensure quality accomplishments. Future team performance instruments will need to capture these kinds of performance activities as well as process activities.

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  1. VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Sepulveda, CA, VISN 22, USA

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Waite, M.S., Hoffman, S.B. (2002). Team Productivity. In: Heinemann, G.D., Zeiss, A.M. (eds) Team Performance in Health Care. Issues in the Practice of Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0581-5_7

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