Teamwork under Stress

Abstract

This chapter presents an overview of what the concept of stress means, especially in relation to the team context. It examines the impact of stress on team performance. The chapter describes research on teams in extreme environments and review issues in measuring stress at the team level. It explores the difference between assessing task requirements in isolation and assessing performance requirements in context. The term 'teamwork' refers to the ability to coordinate and interact to achieve task objectives though a shared understanding of the team's resources, the team's goals and objectives, and the constraints under which the team works. Teamwork stressors are stimuli, or conditions, that influence the team's capability to interact interdependently or capacity to achieve their goals. The chapter argues that the original research on teams and stress originating in the 1940s and 1950s has now evolved to address issues on the frontier of science in the 2030s and beyond.

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