Leadership: Enhancing Team Adaptability in Dynamic Settings
Abstract
To perform complex. interdependent, and urgent tasks in uncertain, unfamiliar, and often treacherous environments, the U.S. Army must be responsive, agile, versatile, and sustainable. These are the hallmarks of adaptive team performance -- the ability of team members to individually and cooperatively apply their knowledge and skills to the resolution of urgent, complex, novel, and ambiguous problems in dynamic work settings. Theory and research regarding the individual, team, and leader processes and characteristics that foster adaptive team performance are, unfortunately, quite limited. The authors conducted five interrelated research projects, combining research methods and approaches -- including comprehensive foundational literature reviews, theory development, experimental research in a laboratory setting, qualitative case study research, and longitudinal survey research in the field -- to build a new understanding of the ways in which leaders may enhance team learning, coordination, and adaptive performance in dynamic work environments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 2008
- Accession Number
- ADA493546
Entities
People
- Katherine J. Klein
- Steve W. Kozlowski
Organizations
- University of Maryland