How does a project management team stay in touch with the work and the attitudes of project team members?

By tracking and recording the accurate project records

Regular meetings, Proper followups, review of the work at every mile stones set. 

For bigger teams make a social intraction site for the team members to share creative ideas, program alerts, trouble solving and productive issues. motivate every team member to be involved.

Through effective communications between the project team members. The project manager is responsible for keeping the team members informed of the state of the project. Usually a weekly project meeting is scheduled in the project plan to clarify the state of the project and any issues related to it.

By daily and weekly reports and repeating visits