Multidisciplinary Teams
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People from different disciplines provide an opportunity for cross fertilisation of ideas leading to greater opportunities for innovation. Staff working in multidisciplinary teams are likely to develop higher levels of knowledge, skills, expertise and experience thus ensuring higher quality outcomes than a team of people with the same background. The establishment of multidisciplinary teams tends to reduce the variation in management and outcomes across departments within an organisation.
Websites
How to Lead Multidisciplinary Teams...
Talks about some of the challenges to leading multidisciplinary teams. The article contains comments and points of interest about the subject.
Colloboration Sessions: How to Lead Multidisciplinary Teams, Generate Buy-In, and Create Unified Design Views in Compressed Timeframes.
An article about leading multidisciplinary teams for website development/redesign. Offers some good pointers and advice.
Publications
SORTLAND,
Bjørn 2004, Interdisciplinary
Team Work - Preparing Students for Work Life, Norwegian University
of Science and Technology (NTNU).
A project assignment for students at masters level. The objective is to train students for a future participation in multidisciplinary teams, and is accomplished by project work in teams of five students from different disciplines.
WILSON,
Valerie & Pirrie, Anne 2000, Multidisciplinary
Teamworking Indicators of Good Practice The Scottish Council for
Research in Education
This paper, based upon a recently completed literature review for the Scottish Executive Education Department and earlier research commissioned by the UK Department of Health, draws together the factors which support and inhibit multidisciplinary working in order to provide a guide to good practice.