6. Team Dynamics Flashcards
Two or more people who perceive themselves as a group and interacts with each other
Group
Corresponding Effects
If one is affected then the rest is affected
Informal vs Formal Groups
- Little interdependence in work context
- Units formed by the organization
Work Group vs Team
- Interdependenct collection of individuals who share responsibility for specific outcomes for their organization
- Interdependent workers with complementary skills working toward a shared goal
Authority Dispersion vs Power Differentiation
- Degree that decision-making responsibility is distributed throughout the team
- Overstepping roles, challenging opinions, interrupting each other, giving orders and giving sarcasm
Departmental Teams vs Self-Directed vs Task Force/Cross-functional
- Similar or complementary skills located in the same unity and usually do not work together
- teams whose members are organized around work processes that complete an entire work. Has substantial autonomy
- Many departments to solve a specific problem (management team), realize an opportunity or design a product or service
Process Losses
Teams have additional costs and resources expended on the team development and maintenance rather than on performing the task
Brook’s Law
Adding more people on a project team when the project is on-going, the project will more likely finished longer than in shorter span of time
Social Facilitation vs Social Inhibition
- Positive effect of the presence of other people on an individual’s behavior
- Negative effect on an individual’s behavior in the presence of others
Audience Effects vs Coaction
- When people are just watching one dude
- When two or more people are performing the same task in the presence of one another
Social Loafing
Principle: People will perform less in a group than alone (Max Ringelmann)
Types of Social Loafing
Free-Rider Theory
Sucker Effect
Social Compensation - an increase of performance when people have low expectations from other group members
Groupthink vs Mindguard
- members become cohesive and like-minded that they make poor decisions
- A member of a cohesive group whose job it is to protect the group from outside information that is inconsistent with the groups views.
Additive vs Conjunctive vs Disjunctive Tasks
- Accumulation of all efforts
- Performance of the weakest link
- Performance of the strongest link
5 Effective Team Member Behavior
Cooperating
Coordinating
Communicating
Comforting
Conflict Handling
