Team Resource Management (TRM): A Tavistock approach to leadership in high-risk environments

Fraher, Amy L.

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to build upon the study of organizational disaster by analysing essential elements of a new team training model called Team Resource Management (TRM). Reviewing the history and methods of Crew Resource Management (CRM), a popular aviation training programme that has spread to other high-risk, high-hazard industries, the article considers its roots in American sensitivity training and identifies a need for a Tavistock-based approach to team training. The article argues that effective leadership training for teams operating in high-risk environments depends on developing events that can foster an examination of authority issues, illuminating both overt and covert group processes that can impede decision-making, and proposes seven guideposts to assist in programme development.

Citation

Fraher, A. L. (2005). Team Resource Management (TRM): A Tavistock approach to leadership in high-risk environments. Organisational and Social Dynamics, 5(2), 163-182

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2005
• Journal: Organisational and Social Dynamics
• Print ISSN: 1474-2780
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 163-182
• Keywords: Team Resource Management, TRM, Tavistock institute, leadership, high-risk environments
• Publisher URL: http://www.karnacbooks.com/JournalOPUS.asp