title: Team task analysis: differentiating between tasks using team relatedness and team workflow as metrics of team task interdependence.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  As a constructive replication and extension of Arthur, Edwards, Bell, Villado, and Bennett (2005), the objective of the current study was to further investigate the efficacy of team relatedness and team workflow ratings (along with their composite) as metrics of interdependence.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Although an analysis of task and job interdependence has important implications and uses in domains such as job design, selection, and training, the job analysis literature has been slow to develop an effective method to identify team-based tasks and jobs.
  
  
  METHODS
  To achieve the study's objectives, 140 F-16 fighter pilots (35 four-person teams) rated 34 task and activity statements in terms of their team relatedness and team workflow.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results indicated that team relatedness and team workflow effectively differentiated between tasks with varying levels of interdependency (as identified by instructor pilots who served as subject matter experts) within the same job. In addition, teams that accurately perceived the level of interdependency performed better on a four-ship F-16 flight-training program than those that did not.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Team relatedness and team workflow ratings can effectively differentiate between tasks with varying levels of interdependency.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Like traditional individual task or job analysis, this information can serve as the basis for specified human resource functions and interventions, and as diagnostic indicators as well.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University, 4235 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-4235, USA. w-arthur@neo.tamu.edu
authors.forename: Winfred
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Arthur
authors.forename: Ryan M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Glaze
authors.forename: Alok
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bhupatkar
authors.forename: Anton J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Villado
authors.forename: Winston
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Bennett
authors.forename: Leah J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Rowe
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001359:Aviation / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008889:Military Personnel; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D016526:Workload