Abstract: Along with the change of organizational structure, team decision has been taken widely within organizations. Four kinds of team decision-making models were categorized in this article as follows: social decision scheme, information sampling model, ranking item task and safety priority teams in organizations. Then influencing factors of team decision making and the strategies to improve the quality of decision making were discussed. Finally, critical issues concerning team decision making research and promising fields were also pointed out

Key words: team, team decision making, safety priority team, crew resource management, non-technical skills