Abstract
Health care organizations are increasingly relying on interprofessional teamwork to deliver high-quality and cost-efficient care, to create disruptive knowledge, and to address grand population health challenges. Thus, understanding how we can deliberately manage such teams in order to effectively coordinate care across occupational boundaries and disciplinary domains is of growing importance. This chapter reviews the conceptual basis and multilevel determinants of successful interprofessional collaboration in the health care sector, and highlights the key themes of relational coordination, a theory of performance and change that aims at transforming workplace relationships to achieve sustainable and desirable outcomes. Finally, adopting a relational perspective on human resource management (HRM), it introduces strategic relational human resource management (SRHRM) as a promising approach for managing coordination in interprofessional teams. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the implications for both researchers and practitioners.