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  • Communication failures and interpersonal conflicts hinder effective teamwork in health-care teams, impacting patient care.
  • Despite numerous studies on teamwork in business, there is a lack of similar research in medical environments.
  • This chapter explores four organizational theories to enhance team interaction in health care, aiming to address communication issues and improve collaboration.

Article Abstract

Previous research has demonstrated that communication failure and interpersonal conflicts are significant impediments among health-care teams to assess complex information and engage in the meaningful collaboration necessary for optimizing patient care. Despite the prolific research on the role of effective teamwork in accomplishing complex tasks, such findings have been traditionally applied to business organizations and not medical contexts. This chapter, therefore, reviews and applies four theories from the fields of organizational behavior (OB) and organization development (OD) as potential means for improving team interaction in health-care contexts. This study is unique in its approach as it addresses the long-standing problems that exist in team communication and cooperation in health-care teams by applying well-established theories from the organizational literature. The utilization and application of the theoretical constructs discussed in this work offer valuable means by which the efficacy of team work can be greatly improved in health-care organizations.

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