PREFERENCES

McEwan, D., Ruissen, G. R., Eys, M. A., Zumbo, B. D., & Beauchamp, M. R. (2017). The

effectiveness of teamwork training on teamwork behaviors and team performance: A

systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled interventions. PloS One, 12(1),

e0169604. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0169604

ABSTRACT

In this decade, team is vital part in every organization’s system, but creating a team with a bunch

of experts is not enough for teams to be effective. In contrast, team members should know how

to working together effectively in order achieve common purposes. The authors also concerned

about how teamwork intervention is effective, and suggestion of future research were also

mentioned. The main purpose of this article is that authors collect researches assessing how team

members can improve their performance by teamwork training. To be included in meta-analysis,

each article have to match eligibility criteria. Then those articles were extracted to different size

and code in order to be analyzed. Many databases were used to collect data about potential

articles. A literature search returned 16,849 unique articles. In addition, 51 articles, comprising

72 (k) unique interventions, 194 effect sizes, and 8439 participants were used to figure out the

meta-analysis, using a random effects model. Additionally, positive and significant effects were

found for teamwork interventions on both teamwork and team performance. There were three

results in total: result of overall effect of teamwork intervention on teamwork processes, results

of the overall effect of teamwork interventions on team performance and result of the moderator

analyses. All of those results had a huge impact on team performance. In conclusion, the authors

mentioned that teamwork training is the best way to enhance teamwork and team performance.
On the other hand, intervention is effective when it is used to create experimental activities for

team member such as practice and develop teamwork.