Teamwork, Teamdiagnose, Teamentwicklung:Praxis der Personalpsychologie

Der Band diskutiert die Vor- und Nachteile von Teamarbeit und stellt Modelle vor, die Teams und ihre Entwicklung beschreiben. Der Leser findet in dem Band Fragebögen und Leitfäden, mit denen die Stärken und Schwächen der eigenen Organisation bzw. des eigenen Teams auf einfache Art und Weise analysiert werden können. Auf der Analyse von Teamprozessen aufbauend, werden Methoden vorgestellt, die dem Team dabei helfen, eine eigene Identität zu entwickeln, Visionen zu definieren und daraus konkrete Ziele abzuleiten. Mit vielen praxisnahen Hinweisen werden schließlich Themen wie die Entwicklung des Einzelnen im Team, die Gestaltung von Tagesordnungen und Meetings oder der Umgang mit schwierigen Teammitgliedern behandelt.

An investigation into enterprise structure and ERP implementations:a contribution to praxis

This professional doctoral research reports on the relationship between Enterprise Systems, specifically Enterprise Resource Planning Systems, and enterprise structures. It offers insights and guidance to practitioners on factors for consideration in the implementation of ERP systems in organisations operating in modern enterprise structures. It reports on reflective ethnographic action research conducted in a number of companies from a diverse range of industries covering supply chains for both goods and services. The primary contribution is in highlighting areas in which clients, practitioners and ERP software vendors can bring a greater awareness of internet era enterprise structures and business requirements into the ERP arena. The concepts and insights have been explored in a focus group setting, comprised of practitioners from the enterprise systems implementation and consulting fraternity and revealed limitations and constraints in the implementation of enterprise systems. However, it also showed that current systems do not have the full capabilities required to support, in use, modern era enterprise structures, as required by practitioners and decision makers.

Dialogic education:reflections from an accounting course

Our paper aims to contribute to the growing body of literature that has suggested that tertiary accounting education should not simply transfer technical/functional/vocational accounting knowledge. This literature suggests that a more critical accounting educational content complemented by a more dialogical teaching approach is more appropriate. Our paper provides further reflections on just such a course and the challenges that this raises. Specifically, it comments on learner resistance and engagement, syllabus design, delivery and assessment methods. In addition, this paper introduces the role that theory, secondary research and debates have played in this course. The value of this type of course, in terms of developing and transforming the learners is discussed.