Thinking Teams / Thinking Clients : : Knowledge-Based Team Work / / Anne Opie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Opie, Anne,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 2 tables
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Part One. Thinking Teamwork --; 1. Mapping the Terrain Ahead --; 2. Shifting Boundaries --; 3. The Teams and Their Organizational Locations --; 4. Researching the Interprofessional --; Part Two. Displaying Teamwork --; 5. Mapping Effectiveness --; 6. “We Talk About the Patients and Then We Have Coffee”: --; 7. Teams as Author: --; 8. “Nobody’s Asked Me for My View”: --; 9. Performing Knowledge Work --; Appendix: Transcript Conventions --; Notes --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231505970; 9783110442472
• DOI: 10.7312/opie11684
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Anne Opie.

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.