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Eduardo Salas¹, Nancy J Cooke, Michael A Rosen

¹University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32826, USA. esalas@ist.ucf.edu

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Area of Science:

Human Factors research
Team Performance Science

Background:

Teams are integral to modern organizations.
Research in team dynamics has evolved significantly.

Purpose of the Study:

To review key discoveries and developments in team performance over 50 years.
To identify challenges and future directions in team science.

Main Methods:

Characterization of progress through eight discoveries.
Identification of five key challenges for future research.

Main Results:

Key discoveries include shared cognition, team training advancements, synthetic task environments, team effectiveness factors and models, multidisciplinary approaches, and intervention strategies.
Future challenges involve team cognition, adaptive and reconfigurable teams, multicultural dynamics, and naturalistic research methods.

Conclusions:

Human Factors research has substantially advanced team science and practice.
Continued research is vital to support the increasing reliance on teams in organizations.
The science of team effectiveness parallels individual performance science.