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Thinking Teams / Thinking Clients: Knowledge-Based Team Work

Thinking Teams / Thinking Clients: Knowledge-Based Team Work

Opie, Anne

Paperback

Medical ReferenceGeneral SociologyPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 0231116853
ISBN13: 9780231116855
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Jan 26 2001
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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