Promoting

Strategy Barriers The 14 C’s of Teamwork

Behaviors

 good
selection of team
members  poor selection of the  Coordination
 good team disciplines and team members of efforts
T Team leaders  poor process of team  Conflict
 maturity and functioning management
flexibility of team
members

 lack of proper measures to

evaluate success of
 personal interdisciplinary work
E Enthusiasm commitment of  Commitment
team members  lack of guidelines for
multiple authorship in research
publications

 physical
proximity of team
members  Cohesiveness
A Accessibility  language problems
 Internet and Collaboration
email as a sup-
porting platform

 insufficient time for the

project
M Motivation  incentives  Contribution
 insufficient funding for the
project

 institutional
support and  Corporate
W Workplace  institutional constraints
changes in the support
workplace

 a common  Confronts
O Objectives goal and shared  discipline conflicts problems
vision directly

 Cooperation
Consensus
 clarity and decision-
R Role  team conflicts
rotation of roles making
 Consistency

K Kinship  communicati  lack of communication  Communicati

 on among team on
members between disciplines Caring
 constructive  unequal power among Chemistry
comments among disciplines (personality,
team members “good fit”)

(Choi and Pak, 2007)