Australian Universities (AU) and the German Academic Exchange Service has granted $5000 funding to support an international research collaboration between the Centre for Transformative Work Design and the Department of Industrial/Organizational and Social Psychology at TU Braunschweig in Germany focusing on the topic “Work Design and Communication in Virtual Teams”. Led by Florian Klonek, the funding will be used to address the challenging questions on how communication patte

With an increase in automation and the continuous decrease of manual work, our future workforce will be more and more composed of knowledge workers. But what do these future changes around knowledge work imply for organisations and the management of the future workforce? In a recent article in the academic journal Group & Organization Management, Claus Langfred and Kevin Rockmann (2016) described how the workforce of the future will increasingly request autonomy at work in or

On Sep 17 2017, Dr Laura Fruhen and Cheryl Yam presented at the ORNA (Operating Room Nurses Association) WA Symposium, held at the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle. Laura and Cheryl presented UWA's research on the impact of team briefings on teamwork in operating theatres. The presentation was well received, with attendees fully engaged in a conversation around how to implement team briefings in their workplaces. Following the presentation, Dr Mark Strahan, a Specialist

The Centre is pleased to announce two new projects, namely the Team Pulse App and the Undiagonosed Disease Program of Western Australian (UDP-WA). The first project aims to assist teams to easily and efficiently measure, analyse, and visualise the quality of teamwork behaviours and communication. The second project aims to measure and describe the individual, team, organisational and national-level factors that contribute to the success of the UDP-WA through interviews, obse

On of our postdocs, Florian Klonek, is giving an online tutorial on using sequential analyses for team research. This online seminar provides a hands-on look at how to run sequential analyses with coded video-data from team meetings. It is also a follow-up from Florian's research talk at the UWA business school last month. The webinar is hosted by the American Psychological Association (APA Division 49) as par t of a special issue of Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Prac