Topic:Can Surgical Teams Ever Learn? The Role of Coordination, Complexity and Transitivity in Action Team Learning

Speaker:Professor Peter Alan Bamberger, Professor, Department of Organizational Behavior, Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration, Tel Aviv University

Time: 10:30-12:00am, Tuesday, Sept 25, 2012

Location:Room 217, New Building of GSM, Peking University.

Abstract

Recognizing that current theories of team learning do not apply to short-term action teams, we conceptualize how action teams may learn, and test hypotheses regarding the performance-related effects of such learning, the mechanisms mediating such effects, and the conditions governing their magnitude. We operationalized the level of Action Team Learning (ATL) in terms of the regularity and number of role-based, guided team reflexivity experiences of an action team’s members. Testing our hypotheses on 250 surgical teams, we find that higher levels of ATL are associated with shorter surgical duration, with this effect mediated by team helping and workload sharing, particularly under conditions of greater team task complexity. Additionally, we find higher levels of ATL to be directly associated with a reduced number of adverse events in low-complexity surgeries.

Speaker’s brief Bio:

Peter Alan Bambergeris a professor is of organizational behavior at Graduate School of Business Administration, Tel Aviv University. He got his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Cornell University in 1990. He is interested in studies of contextual moderation of organization-employee relations; peer relations in the workplace (Peer helping and social support, Peer self-regulation), employee counterproductive behavior and emotional well-being (substance abuse, absenteeism, trauma, stress), employee relations (voicing, union-member relations, compensation strategy). He has published over 70 journal articles, in addition to other publications. His articles appear on AMJ, JAP, OBHDP, among many others. He serves as a reviewer and editorial board member of many top quality journals. He taught courses in some Chinese universities including Peking University (psychology department).

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