Principles for Measuring Teamwork: A Summary and Look Toward the Future

Teams and, as a result, team performance measurement have received an increasing amount of attention since the 1980s (e.g., Driskell & Salas, 1991; Dyer, 1984; Foushee, 1984; Salas, Bowers, and Cannon-Bowers, 1995). There have been numerous articles on teams (see Dyer, 1984; Salas et al., 1995 for comprehensive reviews of the literature), and a number of books have been published that specifically address critical issues related to team performance (see for example, Guzzo & Salas, 1995; Swezey & Salas, 1992; Wiener, Kanki, & Helmreich, 1993). It goes without saying that teamwork has become a critical element of virtually almost all organizations.