ABSTRACT
Landing on the moon. Delivering packages from New York to Copenhagen, Brazil, and Japan on the same day. Mobilizing the Red Cross to provide humanitarian aid in the face of a disaster. None of these things can be accomplished alone. They are simply too big and too complex for a single person to execute. This is one of the reasons that teams are an important component of what gets done day to day around the world. Not surprisingly, then, teams are also, in large part, how work is organized and gets done within organizations. Because of this, I/O psychologists need to understand teams in the workplace.
