Abstract
Over recent years, public organizations have increasingly adopted work teams as an organizational tool for improving task coordination, communication, and knowledge transfer. In this research, I discuss action teams in public organizations and the importance of team feedback for the effectiveness of such professionally heterogeneous public teams. I examine two alternative approaches to team feedback, guided team reflexivity and peer assessment, and hypothesize regarding their effects on team processes and performance. Using a field-based, experimental design involving surgical teams in a large public tertiary health care center, I compared the effects of team reflexivity and peer assessment on specific team-related processes and task duration. I found that guided team reflexivity is related to higher levels of team attention to detail, cooperation, and psychological safety than peer assessment, and that team attention to detail mediates the relationship between feedback type and performance.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 275-306 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Journal | International Public Management Journal |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| State | Published - Apr 2013 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:I gratefully acknowledge the generous financial assistance of the Israel National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research. I thank Peter Bamberger and Miriam Erez for their insightful and astute inputs throughout this research project, as well as Eran Vigoda-Gadot for his useful ideas and helpful comments on an earlier draft of this article.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Business and International Management
- Public Administration