Crossing Boundaries or Supporting Work Team Effectiveness

Crossing Boundaries: Collaboration, Coordination, and the Redefinition of Resources

Author: Seymour B Bernard Sarason

Once again, Sarason leads the way, with a unique and provocative perspective on organizational collaboration.
In this penetrating work, Sarason and Lorenz tackle the problem of decreased in schools and health and social service agencies. They show how collaboration between organizations can work, and how this pooling of resources can add up to more than the sum of parts. The authors the role of networks for maximizing the use of resources, the special role and characteristics of a network coordinator, and the energy and sense of community that will result.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	The Authors
	Introduction: Charters, Curricula, and a History of Failure	1
1	An Emerging Paradigm Shift	13
2	Redefining Resources	35
3	Breaking the Organization Chart Mentality	47
4	Coordination: The Origins of a Point of View	61
5	The Coordinator's Rationale: Cognitive and Stylistic Characteristics	91
6	Collegiality and Community: The New Paradigm in Action	119
	Epilogue: The Public Schools and the Private Sector	137
	References	165
	Index	169

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Supporting Work Team Effectiveness: Best Management Practices for Fostering High Performance

Author: Eric D Sundstrom

A Guide For Managers Of Team-Based Organizations

One of few books to address the management issues of team-based companies, this work shows how to build an organizational infrastructure conducive to superior team performance. The work dispenses with the usual one-model-fits-all approach to identify six distinct types of teams?production, service, management, project, action, and advisory?and explain in detail how to design, implement, and manage the unique systems, policies, and practices that support each. The contributors?all leading consultants and researchers?draw from important case studies to present the best management practices of team-based organizations. Covers every nuance from management structuring to team staffing to information systems. Even shows how to create a physical facility that's right for teams.