The importance of the characteristics of the task to understand team mental models

Abstract

Consistent excellent performance of operational teams is based on distinctive task performance strategies and a highly structured knowledge base that enable experts to adapt their actions to the various task characteristics and demands, to anticipate adequately future developments and to react to situation changes. Build shared mental models as the central phase of action regulation of problem solving teams.

Keywords:

• Complexity
• Task characteristics
• Novelty
• Risk
• Mental models