Team Effectiveness In Complex Organizations (PDF)

Eduardo Salas is University Trustee Chair and Pegasus Professor of Psychology at the University of Central Florida where he also holds an appointment as Program Director for the Human Systems Integration Research Department at the Institute for Simulation and Training. Before joining UCF, he was a senior research psychologist and Head of the Training Technology Development Branch of NAWC-TSD for 15 years. During this period, Dr. Salas served as a principal investigator for numerous R&D programs that focused on teamwork, team training, simulation-based training, decision-making under stress and performance assessment and measurement. Dr. Salas has co-authored over 300 journal articles & book chapters and has co-edited 19 books. His expertise includes assisting organizations in how to foster teamwork, design and implement team training strategies, facilitate training effectiveness, preventing human error, promote a culture of safety, and develop performance measurement tools. Dr. Salas is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the Association of Psychological Science and a recipient of the Meritorious Civil Service Award from the Department of the Navy.

Jay Goodwin is a Research Psychologist at the U. S. Army Research Institute for Behavioral and Social Sciences. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Goodwin is currently a special projects officer in ARI's Strategic Initiatives Group, with responsibility for topics related to ARI's leader and organization research programs. He is also the ARI liaison for international, defense, and joint R&D. Dr. Goodwin's research expertise is in leadership, team effectiveness, and organizational issues in Joint, Interagency, and Multinational contexts. He was previously employed at the American Institutes for Research, where his project work included test