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Excellence in teams: How to achieve performance gains in working groups

Submission deadline: July 31, 2009

Journal: Journal of Managerial Psychology

The frequent implementation of teams in organizations is based on the expectation that teams provide specific advantages compared to employees working alone, often described as process gains or “synergy” in teams. These expected advantages include cognitive benefits (e.g., greater creativity due to diversity of perspectives, higher accuracy due to “more than two eyes,” higher quality problem solving, etc.), motivational benefits (e.g., due to social facilitation, mutual encouragement and support, responsibility and perceived indispensability for others, etc.), and benefits due to the coordination of individual contributions (cf. Hackman & Wageman, 2005). However, although anecdotal evidence for such advantages exists manifold, surprisingly few studies are available that document such performance gains in sound empirical studies, let alone reliable guidelines how to trigger these advantages with HR strategies (staffing, leadership, work design, training, etc.)...Read more

Open call for papers

The Journal of Behavior Analysis of Offender and Victim: Treatment and Prevention (JOBA-OVTP)

This is an open call for papers to one of the newest BAO Journals (www.behavior-analyst-online.org ): The Journal of Behavior Analysis of Offender and Victim: Treatment and Prevention (JOBA-OVTP). This journal is just completing its highly successful first year. JOBA-OVTP is an online, peer reviewed electronic publication of general circulation to the scientific and applied community. The Journal of Behavior Analysis of Offender and Victim - Treatment and Prevention is dedicated to the development and research of behavioral principles as applied to the reduction of recidivism, crime prevention and lessening the pain and suffering of victims . Through achieving this goal, we hope to see the development of a behavioral technology to aide in the rehabilitation of all those involved in an effected by crime and criminal behavior. The Journal of Behavior Analysis of Offender and Victim - Treatment and Prevention strives to be a high quality journal, which also brings up to the minute information on current developments within the field to those who can benefit from those developments. JOBA-OVTP is a primary form of communication between researchers and practitioners, as well as a primary form of communication for those inside and outside behavior analysis. Thus, The Journal of Behavior Analysis of Offender and Victim - Treatment and Prevention will continue to publish original research, reviews, policy papers, theoretical and conceptual work, applied research, program descriptions, research in organizations and the community, clinical work, and curriculum developments.

If you wish to submit, please send it in an e-mail to:

Joseph Cautilli, Ph.D.Editor Journal of Behavior Analysis of Offender and Victim: Treatment and Prevention

jcautilli2003@yahoo.com