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Nature of teams Flashcards

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Teams

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Group of people using their complimentary skills to achieve a common goal for which they’re collectively accountable

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Teamwork

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When workers live up to their collective accountability for goal accomplishments

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What Teams Do (3)

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  • Teams that recommend things
  • Teams that run things
  • Teams that make or do things
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Formal Teams

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Designed to serve specific purpose.

  • Permanent or temporary
  • Can be very large
  • Can be a department, divisions or team
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Informal group

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Non-official and emerge to serve special interest

  • Develop through personal relationships
  • Own network of relationships
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Friendship group

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  • Like each other
  • Take break together
  • Sit together
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Interest group

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  • Share work on non-work interest
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Cross-functional team

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  • Team with member of different unit

- Positive combination of functional expertise and integrative team thinking.

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Functional silos problem

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Members of one functional team fails to interact with another.

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Problem-Solving teams

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Created temporarily to serve a specific purpose

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Employee involvement team

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  • Team to address work-place issues

- Enhance quality, productivity and quality of work

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Self-Managing teams

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  • Self-manage themselves in day-to-day work.
  • Multiskilling
  • Shift might be hard
  • High involvement
  • Participation
  • Empowerment
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Virtual teams

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  • Workers work through virtual mediation
  • Cost ant time efficient
  • Less interpersonal problems
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Online Meetings

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  • Less man-dominated discussion

- Less deference to job titles and status

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Effective team

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Achieve high level of task performance, member satisfaction and team viability

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Team viability

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Team work well enough to continue working on a ongoing basis.

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Member satisfaction

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Members :

  • Good contribution to the team
  • Team Meet personal needs
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How do you measure task performance

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Achieve goals in standard sense of quantity, quality and timelessness

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Synergy

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Whole greater than the sum of its parts

  • No expert = team makes better decision
  • Good for complex problem
  • More creative and innovative
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Social facilitation

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One behavior influenced by the presence of others.

- Boost or Detriment

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Social Loafing

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Someone doing less in team than he or she would do alone

  • Individual contribution less noticeable
  • Want others to carry workload
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Problems of working in teams (4)

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  1. Personal conflict
  2. Differences in work style
  3. Ambiguous agenda
  4. Ill-define problem
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Stages of team-development

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  1. Forming stage
  2. Storming stage
  3. Norming stage
  4. Performing stage
  5. Adjourning stage
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Forming stage

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  • Getting to know each other
  • Discover acceptable behavior
  • Determining real task
  • Defining group rules
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Storming stage

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  • Tension & hostility
  • Pressure from outside demand
  • Members start to understand each other
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Norming stage

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Members start to work together as a coordinated team

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Performing stage

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  • Structure stable
  • Team mature
  • well-organized and functioning
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Adjourning stage

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Team disband when work done

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Team ressource

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  • Appropriate goals
  • Well-designed reward system
  • Adequate ressource
  • Appropriate technology
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Team’s task technical demand

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  • Task is routine or not
  • Level of difficulty
  • Information requirement
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Team’s social demand

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Degree to which issues of interpersonal relationships come into play.

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Team size

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  • Bigger team can boost performance and member signification

- Ideal size of 5-7

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Big teams’ problems

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  • Satisfaction dip
  • Absenteeism
  • Social loafing
  • Turnover
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Team composition

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  • Mix of abilities, size and experience

- Team perform better when member have skills and competence that best fit task demands

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Firo-B theory

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Identifies differences between team members on their need to express feelings of inclusion, control and affectation

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Status congruence

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When a person’s position in the team is equivalent in the status outside the individual holds outside of it.

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Homogeneous teams

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  • Underperform more heterogeneous teams

- Not a lot of problems

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Diversity-consensus dilemma

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Diversity makes it harder to work together, especially in early stages

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Collective intelligence

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Ability of a team to perform well across a range of tasks

MGCR222 (8 decks)

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