TY  - CHAP
AB  - Purpose In this chapter we highlight a neurodynamic approach that is showing promise as a quantitative measure of team performance.Methodology/approach During teamwork the rapid electroencephalographic (EEG) oscillations that emerge on the scalp were transformed into symbolic data streams which provided historical details at a second-by-second resolution of how the team perceived the evolving task and how they adjusted their dynamics to compensate for, and anticipate new task challenges. Key to this approach are the different strategies that can be used to reduce the data dimensionality, including compression, abstraction and taking advantage of the natural redundancy in biologic signals.Findings The framework emerging is that teams continually enter and leave organizational neurodynamic partnerships with each other, so-called metastable states, depending on the evolving task, with higher level dynamics arising from mechanisms that naturally integrate over faster microscopic dynamics.Practical implications The development of quantitative measures of the momentary dynamics of teams is anticipated to significantly influence how teams are assembled, trained, and supported. The availability of such measures will enable objective comparisons to be made across teams, training protocols, and training sites. They will lead to better understandings of how expertise is developed and how training can be modified to accelerate the path toward expertise.Originality/value The innovation of this study is the potential it raises for developing globally applicable quantitative models of team dynamics that will allow comparisons to be made across teams, tasks, and training protocols.
VL  - 18
SN  - 978-1-78635-403-7, 978-1-78635-404-4/1534-0856
DO  - 10.1108/S1534-085620160000018004
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1534-085620160000018004
AU  - Stevens Ronald H.
AU  - Galloway Trysha L.
AU  - Willemsen-Dunlap Ann
PY  - 2017
Y1  - 2017/01/01
TI  - Low Level Predictors of Team Dynamics: A Neurodynamic Approach
T2  - Team Dynamics Over Time
T3  - Research on Managing Groups and Teams
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 71
EP  - 92
Y2  - 2024/04/18
ER  -