Thinking Teams / Thinking Clients Knowledge-Based Team Work

Name: Thinking Teams / Thinking Clients Knowledge-Based Team Work
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ISBN: 9780231116855

ISBN-10: 0231116853

ISBN-13: 9780231116855

Edition: 2000

Authors: Anne Opie

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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…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 1/26/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.91" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Anne Opie is research manager for the Legal Services Board in Wellington, New Zealand. She has published extensively on issues in qualitative research and aging. Her writings include Beyond Good Intentions: Support Work with Older People.



Acknowledgments



Thinking Teamwork



Mapping the Terrain Ahead



Shifting Boundaries



The Teams and Their Organizational Locations



Researching the Interprofessional: Theory/Site/Practice



Displaying Teamwork



Mapping Effectiveness: Achieving a "More Subtle Vision"



"We Talk About the Patients and Then We Have Coffee": Making and Shaping Team Discussions



Teams as Author: Narrative and Knowledge Creation in Case Discussions



"Nobody's Asked Me for My View": Clients' Empowerment in Interprofessional Teamwork



Performing Knowledge Work



Transcript Conventions


Notes


References


Index