El concepto de equipo en la investigación sobre efectividad en equipos de trabajo

The objective of the present study is to evaluate the way in which the work team concept has been used in research in organizational settings between 2000 and 2010. A literature review was done in which the main findings were: 1) The research units of analysis (teams) are not constructed properly, with no clear boundaries in terms of number of members, amount of time spent in interaction among the members, and specific characteristics of the organizations studied, 2) Team effectiveness focuses primarily on productivity outcomes, but not on group or individual variables. Based on these results, two areas of intervention and future research are proposed.