Making the Team: A Guide for Managers

by Leigh L. Thompson

An excellent resource for managers at every stage of the game, this text offers insight to help leaders and team members maximize their success.

Teams in Organizations: Facts and Myths; Performance and Productivity: Team Performance Criteria and Threats to Productivity; Rewarding Teamwork: Compensation and Performance Appraisals; Designing the Team: Tasks, People, and Processes; Team Identity, Emotion, and Development; Sharpening the Team Mind: Communication and Collective Intelligence; Team Decision Making: Pitfalls and Solutions; Conflict in Teams: Leveraging Differences to Create Opportunity; Creativity: Mastering Strategies for High Performance; Networking, Social Capital, and Integrating across Teams; Leadership: Managing the Paradox; Interteam Relations: Competition and Cooperation; Teamwork via Information Technology: Teaming across Distance and Culture

For anyone who is interested in learning more about how to lead or become an effective member of a team.

Genres: Business, Management, Leadership, Nonfiction

450 pages, Paperback

First published October 13, 1999

Reviews

[Jordan Hartmann · Rating 3 out of 5]

Many great concepts densely packed. Often, it will jump down a rabbit trail not connected to the section's topic, and often topics are briefly mentioned with no level of detail that could make them understandable. Overall, I will keep this book for reference.

[S · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is my favourite management book of all time. Why? Everything in it is scientifically backed up. It provides specific suggestions about how to deal with issues in performance measurement, team building and change management (among others). Also, it is relatively short for a textbook. Brilliant. Useful. Top shelf.

[C.J. Capen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this book very helpful for team building and managing teams.

[Jevgenij · Rating 2 out of 5]

Reads like a glossary of management related terms.

[Michelle King · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book that helps managers to understand how to best build and manage teams

[Jess Aurand · Rating 4 out of 5]

It’s so dense, but chock full of incredible information. A great reference book!

[san · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this one for a class — I actually really enjoyed the content. If you are a leader or part of a team, this book is a great resource for you!

[Santosh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Textbook!

[Veronica Russell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read for a class, it’s fine, covers basic team design and optimization principles.

[Jimmy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good as textbooks go

[Shayla Flynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Embarrassing but I did actually read this textbook for a class and it was objectively good and informative

[Werter Maiani · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hard to read; it’s more of a compendium of everything, a reference book.

[Pedram]

I should read it for my course and for its exam, Not so much fun. It seams that every group' moves have been theorized here. But you can find every theories and concepts about teams in an organization in this book.

[Mark · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is the first textbook I had to read for my Master's degree. But it's a textbook. How much can one like a textbook?