Resumen de Teamwork: A comparison between nonprofit and public organizations

Paula Benevene, Michela Cortini, Antonino Callea

• The aim of the present paper is to compare teamwork performance between Non profit and Public sector organizations. Some of the scales of the Aston Team Performance Inventory (ATPI) was administered to 400 employees from Non profit and Public sector organizations. The dimensional structure of the questionnaire was verified against the original version, through a factorial analysis run via SPSS 16.0. The ANOVA was used to test the relationship between team processes and satisfaction against the type of organization (Public vs NPO).

  The two groups of participants showed differences both in terms of leadership processes and leadership style regarding teamwork as well as teamwork output. Non profit employees emerged as the group where the teamwork is more effective.

  Practical implications: to understand which dimensions of teamwork are to be improved in each group and which ones can be considered as an example of excellence, therefore serve as a reference for good practice. Furthermore, it is often questioned whether instruments and methods used among Profit and Public organizations should be used also for NPOs, and ATPI emerged as an effective tool also for those organizations, where team work is quire widespread