Scholars and practitioners have long suggested that small teams work better team work, yet it is surprising that many organizations use a team of 10 or more people. Explains how the large size of the team affects teamwork and offers four ways to keep the team small: (1) Create a project multiteam; (2) create a core team and extended teams, and (3) outsource the task and specify command external contributions, and (4) to team members for certain phases of the project. "Hide
by Martin Hoegl Source: Business Horizons 6 pages. Publication Date: May 15, 2005. Prod. #: BH132-PDF-ENG
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