Thinking Teams / Thinking Clients - Knowledge Based Teamwork

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-231-11684-8
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Addressing a key concern in human service and other organizational settings concerned with effective teamwork, this book offers a new paradigm for conceptualizing the subject. Based on qualitative research conducted with teams working with the chronically ill, elderly, and with high-risk psychiatric patients, Anne Opie has developed a method of working with teams that focuses on teamwork as "knowledge work" and is applicable to a variety of disciplines and settings.Most discussions of teamwork have focused on the team players, notably their interpersonal relationships. Drawing on Foucauldian theories of discourse, Thinking Teams / Thinking Clients provides a postmodern analysis of teamwork that stresses working with professional knowledge in an organizational context. It stresses the need for different kinds of disciplinary knowledge in teams, and discusses the role of organizations in achieving more effective teamwork.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Opie, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik, Theorie und Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Thinking Team Work1. Shifting Boundaries2. The Teams and Their Organizational Settings3. Researching the Interprofessional: Theory/Practice/Site2. Displaying Team Work4. Mapping Effectiveness/achieving a more "subtle vision"5. "We talk about the patients and then we have coffee": shaping team discussions6. Teams as author: narrative and knowledge creation in case discussions7. "Nobody asked me for my view": Clients' empowerment in interprofessional team work8. Performing Knowledge WorkBibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Anne Opie is research manager for the Legal Services Board in Wellington, New Zealand. She has published extensively on issues in qualitative research and aging. Her writings include Beyond Good Intentions: Support Work with Older People.