Team types, perceived efficiency and team climate in Swedish cross-professional teamwork.
This paper aims to identify the dominant types of team organization in cross-professional Swedish human service organizations and the relationship between team type and perceived efficiency as well as team climate as an aspect of work satisfaction. A questionnaire was responded to by 337 individual professionals from 59 teams, mainly from psychiatric care (50.7%) but also from social, neuropaediatric and vocational (re)habilitation, school health care and the occupational health service. The interprofessional model of team organization was the most frequent (62%), followed by the transprofessional (33%), and the multiprofessional team, (5%). A moderate positive correlation was found between team type and perceived efficiency as well as team climate. The greater the interdependence and the closer the co-operation, the higher the efficiency and the better the climate. No differences were found between professions or organizational domiciles with respect to team type. This paper suggests (1) a more consistent vocabulary with 'cross-professional' as the generic term covering different team types and (2) that a contingency approach to teamwork is tested in future research.
Thylefors
Ingela
I
Department of Psychology, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden. ingela.thylefors@psy.gu.se
Persson
Olle
O
Hellström
Daniel
D
D000328:Adult; D003625:Data Collection; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden