This thesis aims at investigating team dynamics and inter team relations identifying the antecedents that lead to those team members’ behavior and, thus, providing fresh evidence for managers and policy makers. The objective is to address some major gaps in team literature: firstly, dynamics among team members could have an impact on team performance and effectiveness, and in this sense, the exchange of knowledge and information across boundaries represents one of the major challenges in today’s turbulent environment; secondly, many studies have been conducted on the optimal composition of team and on the dynamics that enable or disable the performance of the team itself. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has been one of the major threats experienced by healthcare organizations requiring a quick adaptation and important changes. Nowadays, teams are widely used in many organizations, nevertheless, these practices have evolved during time posing new challenges that need to be addressed by the management. In detail the thesis is structured as follow: the first and the second paper provide fresh insights on the antecedents that lead team members to engage in boundary spanning activities. The third paper analyses the impact of the pandemic on the quality of care provided including important implications for teamwork practices.
La tesi ha l’ambizione di fornire nuove evidenze sul lavoro in team attraverso l’analisi delle dinamiche interne al gruppo e delle relazioni intra e inter-organizzative. In particolare, adottando la prospettiva degli individui all’interno del gruppo, il fine ultimo è quello di colmare alcuni importanti gap presenti ad oggi in letteratura. In primo luogo, una delle principali sfide che caratterizzano l’ambiente odierno riguarda gli antecedenti che spingono i membri di un team a scambiare conoscenze e informazioni con altri team all’interno di una stessa organizzazione o esterni a quest’ultima. Inoltre, la letteratura è ricca di evidenze circa la composizione ottimale del team e il raggiungimento di migliori performance. Tuttavia, negli ultimi anni la pandemia da Covid-19 ha rappresentato una delle principali minacce, soprattutto per le organizzazioni sanitarie cui sono stati richiesti rapidi adattamenti e cambiamenti importanti. Infatti, nonostante i team rappresentino uno strumento ampiamente utilizzato in molte organizzazioni, l’evoluzione di tali pratiche ha posto nuove e importanti sfide. Nel dettaglio la tesi è così sviluppata: il primo e il secondo paper forniscono evidenze in merito agli antecedenti che portano i membri del team a instaurare relazioni con colleghi esterni finalizzate al raggiungimento degli obiettivi del team. Il terzo paper analizza, invece, l'impatto della pandemia sulla qualità dell'assistenza erogata dalle strutture sanitarie fornendo importanti implicazioni per lo sviluppo dei team multidisciplinari in tale ambito.
LAURITA, ROBERTA, EVOLUTION OF TEAMWORKING PRACTIES: OVERCOMING TEAM BOUNDARIES AND MANAGING UNEXPECTED EVENTS, CICCHETTI, AMERICO, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano:Ciclo XXXV [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/286031]
EVOLUTION OF TEAMWORKING PRACTIES: OVERCOMING TEAM BOUNDARIES AND MANAGING UNEXPECTED EVENTS
Laurita, Roberta
2023
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This thesis aims at investigating team dynamics and inter team relations identifying the antecedents that lead to those team members’ behavior and, thus, providing fresh evidence for managers and policy makers. The objective is to address some major gaps in team literature: firstly, dynamics among team members could have an impact on team performance and effectiveness, and in this sense, the exchange of knowledge and information across boundaries represents one of the major challenges in today’s turbulent environment; secondly, many studies have been conducted on the optimal composition of team and on the dynamics that enable or disable the performance of the team itself. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has been one of the major threats experienced by healthcare organizations requiring a quick adaptation and important changes. Nowadays, teams are widely used in many organizations, nevertheless, these practices have evolved during time posing new challenges that need to be addressed by the management. In detail the thesis is structured as follow: the first and the second paper provide fresh insights on the antecedents that lead team members to engage in boundary spanning activities. The third paper analyses the impact of the pandemic on the quality of care provided including important implications for teamwork practices.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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