Building Team-Based Working: A Practical Guide to Organizational Transformation

by Michael A. West

This book gives managers and consultants practical guidance on how to build organizations that are structured around effective teamworking.


This text focuses on how to build organizations that are structured around teams.
Ideal for managers or consultants who are introducing team-based working into organizations.
Examines the psychological and social processes that can facilitate or obstruct successful teamwork.
Each chapter contains aims, activities, support materials and tools.
Support materials can also be downloaded from an accompanying website.
Based on evidence gathered by the authors over 20 years of practical management experience, research in organizations, and consultancy.

183 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2003

About the author

Michael A. West, Ph.D. (1977), CBE, is Professor of Organizational Psychology at Lancaster University Management School and Emeritus Professor of Organizational Psychology and Director of Research at Aston Business School, Aston University. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the American Psychological Association (APA), the International Association of Applied Psychologists, the British Academy of Management and the Academy of Social Sciences.