Aprender conocimientos, destrezas y habilidades para trabajar en equipo con técnicas formativas innovadorasla simulación y las dinámicas de grupo

Abstract

The growing importance of teamwork in the business world requires a specialized training. In particular, it deals with the teaching of certain knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) which allows the work teams to be more effective, as Chen et al. (2004) or Ellis et al. (2005) have demonstrated in their research. Along the same lines, Stevens and Campion (1994) classify the KSAs into two groups: those of self-management and interpersonal ones and link them to different company human resource practices -among others, that of training. The aim of the present work is to study the positive influence of teamwork training on the results of the teams and, also, to compare the effectiveness of the training aimed at team self-management, and the training centered on the internal processes of these teams, based on interpersonal variables. In order to verify the previous relationships, an experiment was carried out with a group of undergraduates studying in the School of Business who participated in a strategic decision simulation in teams, offering diverse group dynamics about teamwork training