Lecture 7

Question 1

Roles in groups

Question 2

Antecedentes and consequences of role-related issues

Question 3

Belbin roles

Question 4

Myth on roles

Answer 4

o Role balance concept: all the nine roles will balance well one with another;
o A group needs to have all the nine roles in the right amount in order to reach performance;
o Belbin roles - technique used to select and develop high-performance teams

Question 5

Reality on roles

Answer 5

o Empirical evidence: little support for Belbin’s
claims;
o Team balance indexes are not associated with
teamwork quality or end-performance….
o Nevertheless…Belbin roles are still used by a large
number of companies

Question 6

Team building

Answer 6

a class of formal and informal team-level
interventions that focus on improving social relations and clarifying roles, as well as solving task and interpersonal problems that affect
team functioning

Question 7

T-groups

Answer 7

• Training groups (T-groups) : seek to change behavior through unstructured group interaction.
• No explicit agenda, goal, structure
• Participants are encouraged to share emotional reactions in response to their fellow actions/statements
• Participants learn what reactions their own behavior actually generates;
• Group emotions, behaviors, can be identified, understood, and altered in order to improve within the group and the
  organization.

Question 8

Goal setting

Question 9

Interpersonal relations

Question 10

Role clarification

Question 11

Problem solving

Question 12

Is team building effective?

Question 13

What predicts teams perfromance overall?

Answer 13

ØComposition with respect to personality (conscientiousness, openness to experience)
ØPreference for teamwork
ØTransformational leadership
ØCognitive ability
ØTask design
ØTeam efficacy
ØCohesion
ØTask conflict
ØInformation sharing
ØRelationship conflict

Question 14

Boundary activities model

Question 15

Boundary activities model

Question 16

Ideo’s culture of collaboration & helping