Teams Flashcards
An organized, task-focused group
Team
5 types of teams
Management
Project
Advisory
Work (Service, Production)
Action
Type of Teams
Identify and solve problems, make decisions about day-to-day operations and production, and set the goals for the organization’s future.
Management teams
Type of Teams
Include individuals with different backgrounds and areas of expertise who join together to develop innovative products and identify new solutions to existing problems
Project teams
Type of Teams
Sometimes called parallel teams because they work outside the usual supervisory structures of the company.
Advisory teams
Type of Teams
Responsible for the organization’s tangible output
Work teams
Generate a product or a service through highly coordinated actions
Action teams
Intuitive appeal of teams as effective means of improving performance in business and
organizational settings, despite the relative lack of definitive evidence supporting their utility
Romance of teams
Include any antecedent factors that may
influence, directly or indirectly, the team members and the team itself.
Inputs
Operations and activities that mediate the relationship between the input factors and the team’s outcomes.
Processes
Consequences of the team’s activities
Outputs
Acronym for knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics that are needed to complete a job or task successfully.
KSAs
Process by which members of the team
combine their knowledge, skills, abilities, and other resources, through a coordinated series of actions, to produce an outcome.
Teamwork
Task-focused groups that work and communicate by using information technologies, such as email and video conferencing.
Virtual teams
Small self-regulated groups of employees charged with identifying ways to improve product quality
Quality circles (QCs)
