Work-team has emerged as an important unit composi ng the organization today. The concepts relating to the properties of team-role t hat fit with today’s business environment have attracted much attention from the th...Work-team has emerged as an important unit composi ng the organization today. The concepts relating to the properties of team-role t hat fit with today’s business environment have attracted much attention from the theorists and researchers. A team having a balanced composition of team-ro les is called a balanced team. Theoretically, a balanced team usually renders a better team performance. Therefore, to improve the performance of the team, mana gement needs to ensure that their work teams are composed of appropriate team me mbers with complementary skills, playing different roles, together forming a bal anced team. However, in certain situation, a balanced team can hardly be formed. For example , companies in Hong Kong are mostly the small-to-medium sized enterprises. The number of team-members is usually smaller than the required number for formula ting a balanced team. Also, as team members are required to travel often across borders, stable team can hardly be maintained. To resolve this problem, a different paradigm of team-role prevails here. Team -members autonomously supplant the roles of those missing members. We call this phenomenon the kinetic team role behavior. By using the methodology adopted from psychotherapy study, we propose a way to investigate this interesting and important characteristics of team-role.展开更多
Lamarck,a son of the age of natural philosophy and revolutionary ideas,turned to zoology,the field in which he made his major impact,in his old age.By then,the world had already shifted towards a different intellectua...Lamarck,a son of the age of natural philosophy and revolutionary ideas,turned to zoology,the field in which he made his major impact,in his old age.By then,the world had already shifted towards a different intellectual atmosphere and,due to this anachronism,he was snubbed and even ridiculed by the mainstream neo-Darwinists.Yet his basic ideas about the active role of organisms in and the progressive unraveling of evolution stubbornly survived along the academic fringes and,more importantly,among the humanistic writers.Recent developments in genetic inheritance,embryology,immunology and behavioral studies vindicate,at least in part,the 200-year-old vision of Lamarck.展开更多
文摘Work-team has emerged as an important unit composi ng the organization today. The concepts relating to the properties of team-role t hat fit with today’s business environment have attracted much attention from the theorists and researchers. A team having a balanced composition of team-ro les is called a balanced team. Theoretically, a balanced team usually renders a better team performance. Therefore, to improve the performance of the team, mana gement needs to ensure that their work teams are composed of appropriate team me mbers with complementary skills, playing different roles, together forming a bal anced team. However, in certain situation, a balanced team can hardly be formed. For example , companies in Hong Kong are mostly the small-to-medium sized enterprises. The number of team-members is usually smaller than the required number for formula ting a balanced team. Also, as team members are required to travel often across borders, stable team can hardly be maintained. To resolve this problem, a different paradigm of team-role prevails here. Team -members autonomously supplant the roles of those missing members. We call this phenomenon the kinetic team role behavior. By using the methodology adopted from psychotherapy study, we propose a way to investigate this interesting and important characteristics of team-role.
文摘Lamarck,a son of the age of natural philosophy and revolutionary ideas,turned to zoology,the field in which he made his major impact,in his old age.By then,the world had already shifted towards a different intellectual atmosphere and,due to this anachronism,he was snubbed and even ridiculed by the mainstream neo-Darwinists.Yet his basic ideas about the active role of organisms in and the progressive unraveling of evolution stubbornly survived along the academic fringes and,more importantly,among the humanistic writers.Recent developments in genetic inheritance,embryology,immunology and behavioral studies vindicate,at least in part,the 200-year-old vision of Lamarck.
