 John Mathieu
John Mathieu is a professor and the department head of Management at the University of Connecticut. He also holds the Cizik Chair in Management at UConn. His primary areas of interest include models of training effectiveness, team and multiteam processes, and cross-level models of organizational behavior. He has conducted work with several Fortune 500 companies, the armed services (i.e., Army, Navy, and Air Force), federal and state agencies (e.g., NRC, NASA, FAA, DOT), and numerous public and private organizations. Dr. Mathieu has over 85 publications, 175 presentations at national and international conferences, and has been a PI or Co-PI on over $5M in grants and contracts. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association as well as the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and a member of the Academy of Management. He serves on numerous editorial boards and has guest edited special volumes of top-level journals. He holds a PhD in industrial-organizational psychology from Old Dominion University.
Abstract
Achieving Optimal Team Composition for Success
Everyone agrees that establishing the “right chemistry” is vital for team success - but how do we do so? I will outline an approach which simultaneously maximizes: 1) fitting people into roles; 2) establishing important team characteristics (e.g., functional diversity); and 3) ensuring that key competencies are resident in teams.
Learning Objectives:
1. Distinguish between member competencies that contribute to:
a. job or role performance
b. the overall profile of the team
c. represent key ingredients that must reside somewhere in the team
2. Identify the most important team features that place a premium on the different types of competencies.
3. Describe an approach to staffing teams that balances the different and sometimes competing goals.
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