<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Organizations in today’s environment are relied on teams and their learning as key determinants for survival and success. The aim of this paper is to identify the key team learning processes and activities in organizations and to examine how the eventual appearance and growth of the problems in team impact on those processes and activities. Research was conducted in nine teams with 79 members in one public service organization located in Belgrade, Serbia, using interview and questionnaire techniques. Descriptive analysis, linear regression and Pearson correlation coefficient were used for processing and interpreting collected data. The results show that undefined roles of team members, a lack of trust among them, inadequate rewards, inadequate leadership and team management, will cause a moderate decrease in team learning processes and activities. The value of this research is that growing reliance on teamwork in organizations put pressure on leaders and managers to understand the factors that enable and stimulate team learning processes and activities, but also to identify and overcome all problems that may arise in teams and slow down the learning in teams as one of the most important processes.</p></abstract>

Organizations in today’s environment are relied on teams and their learning as key determinants for survival and success. The aim of this paper is to identify the key team learning processes and activities in organizations and to examine how the eventual appearance and growth of the problems in team impact on those processes and activities. Research was conducted in nine teams with 79 members in one public service organization located in Belgrade, Serbia, using interview and questionnaire techniques. Descriptive analysis, linear regression and Pearson correlation coefficient were used for processing and interpreting collected data. The results show that undefined roles of team members, a lack of trust among them, inadequate rewards, inadequate leadership and team management, will cause a moderate decrease in team learning processes and activities. The value of this research is that growing reliance on teamwork in organizations put pressure on leaders and managers to understand the factors that enable and stimulate team learning processes and activities, but also to identify and overcome all problems that may arise in teams and slow down the learning in teams as one of the most important processes.

Team Learning Processes and Activities in Organization: A Case Study

Economic Themes

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Organizations in today’s environment are relied on teams and their learning as key determinants for survival and success. The aim of this paper is to identify...

Team Learning Processes and Activities in Organization: A Case Study

Data publikacji: 26 wrz 2019

Zakres stron: 301 - 319

Otrzymano: 29 sty 2018

Przyjęty: 28 maj 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ethemes-2018-0018

Słowa kluczowe
Teams, Team learning, Problems in team, Team learning processes and activities

© 2018 Snežana Lazarević et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Team Learning Processes and Activities in Organization: A Case Study

Data publikacji: 26 wrz 2019

Zakres stron: 301 - 319

Otrzymano: 29 sty 2018

Przyjęty: 28 maj 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ethemes-2018-0018

Słowa kluczoweTeams, Team learning, Problems in team, Team learning processes and activities

© 2018 Snežana Lazarević et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Słowa kluczowe
Teams, Team learning, Problems in team, Team learning processes and activities