Becoming a Team : Achieving a Goal
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Book Description
Becoming a Team puts the ideas, advice, and tools learners need to be successful in the workplace where employer demands "to work as a team" are intensifying. This text blends the latest research on ?teams? with an assortment of assessments and exercises. Roy Herrenkohl?s, teaching experience in Lehigh?s Business School?s Executive Education courses led him to develop a text on ?Teams? ? a text based on student needs and one which has been taught in a variety of subject areas including business and engineering. In addition to teaching, he does research on teamwork and employee empowerment and also program evaluation research assessing the impact of educational, social and industrial training activities. Becoming a Team: Achieving a Goal will be a valuable resource for instructors and learners alike in many arenas in which teamwork is taught and practiced.
About the Author
Roy C. Herrenkohl is a Distinguished University Service Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Education in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Center for Social Research. He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from NYU; attended Union Theological Seminary, attended University of Reading, England studying philosophy and Sociology on a Rotary Foundation Fellowship, and received his undergraduate degree from Washington and Lee University.
In addition to his current position as Distinguished University Service Professor in the department of Sociology and Anthropology, he served as Vice Provost for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies at Lehigh University, 1990-1996.
His current research activities include research on teamwork and employee empowerment; research on family dynamics and child-rearing practices in a longitudinal study of maltreated and non-maltreated children; and program evaluation research assessing the impact of educational, social and industrial training activities.
He is a licensed Psychologist and is a member of the American Psychological Association, American Psychological society, and the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect.
Becoming a Team : Achieving a Goal,Roy C. Herrenkohl,South-Western College Pub,0324177887,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Decision Making & Problem Solving,Human Resources & Personnel Management,Leadership,Management - General,Teams in the workplace,Business & Economics / Skills
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