Are Real Teams Healthy Teams - Book Report/Review Example

The authors of this book are Ph.D. holders, Martina Buljac and Jeroine D.H Van Wijngaarden who are both professors at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands while Marianne Van Woerkom is a professor at Tilburg University.

It also explains that in the long-term care sector, there is no such thing as a real team since each real team characteristic impacts differently on team process and effectiveness. (Buljac et al., 2013)  There is a likelihood that a team will perform well if the real team characteristics are present. The amount of turnover in a team affects the team’s stability and varies among long-term care teams.

Real teams are healthy teams since they are likely to invest more effort and time in team learning activities as compared to nominal teams. There is an anticipation of the positive relationship between team learning and real team characteristics. They are also healthy teams in that; they provide emotional support. This support may reduce strain directly or through alleviating stressors and also may prevent the occurrence of stressors. (Buljac et al., 2013). The article is relevant to the principles of management since while organizations keep their care teams as bounded and stable as possible; they reduce staff turnover and increase team effectiveness. What I learned new from this article is that stability of membership and team boundaries lead to healthier team processes and have a positive impact on emotional support and team learning as opposed to task interdependence which has a negative effect. A real team is not a unitary construct for long-term care teams. (Buljac et al., 2013)