To take, place and refuse accountability: how team members handle tasks and roles in collaboration on school attendance problems.

Role and task definition are central to collaboration in teams. However, accountability to roles and tasks has not been studied, nor how they are handled in interaction. This paper studies how members of multi-professional teams show accountability in handling roles and tasks in collaboration. Twent...

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Published in:Journal of Social Work Practice Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 85 - 100
Main Author: Mossberg, Linda
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2025
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        affil: Department of Social and Behavioural Studies, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden
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        Teams in the workplace
        Corporate culture
        Task performance
        Interprofessional relations
        Job absenteeism
        Occupational roles
        Mental health services
        Responsibility
        Schools
        Evaluation of human services programs
        Interviewing
        Social responsibility
        Child care
        Research funding
        Descriptive statistics
        Thematic analysis
        Conceptual structures
        Health care teams
        Physical activity
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          Teams in the workplace
          Corporate culture
          Task performance
          Interprofessional relations
          Job absenteeism
          Occupational roles
          Mental health services
          Responsibility
          Schools
          Evaluation of human services programs
          Interviewing
          Social responsibility
          Child care
          Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians)
          Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Hospitals
          Residential Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities
          Elementary and Secondary Schools
          All Other Miscellaneous Schools and Instruction
          Research funding
          Descriptive statistics
          Thematic analysis
          Conceptual structures
          Health care teams
          Physical activity
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        accountability
        collaboration
        Multi-professional teams
        school
        school attendance problems
        social work
        accountability
        collaboration
        Multi-professional teams
        school
        school attendance problems
        social work
      ab: Role and task definition are central to collaboration in teams. However, accountability to roles and tasks has not been studied, nor how they are handled in interaction. This paper studies how members of multi-professional teams show accountability in handling roles and tasks in collaboration. Twenty meetings of two teams in a multi-professional project aimed at school attendance problems were analysed. Findings showed that members took, placed and refused formal and informal accountability to handle roles and tasks in the project. In these results, what collaboration should entail and how it should be performed was manifested through formal and informal accountability, respectively. Thus, findings show the complexity behind the prompt to define roles and tasks in collaboration by looking at interactions among members and how that shapes collaboration.
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