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Organizational Leadership for Building Effective Health Care Teams
Stephen H. Taplin , and colleagues
Background With the Affordable Care Act and other movements spurring team approaches, this article addresses the potential and challenges of using teams in health care.
What This Study Found For leaders to help create and support effective teams, they must know what conditions encourage effective functioning of a particular type of team in a particular setting. Leaders must be conscious of their role in shaping teams and recognize that creating effective teams requires their support, coaches who can facilitate team development, organizations that value teamwork, space that encourages teamwork, and leadership that rewards team performance.
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