Teamwork Flashcards
Team
a group of people with complementary skills who work together to achieve a specific goal
Group
go about their jobs independently and meet primarily to work toward a shared objective
Characteristics of a team
-shared accountability
-function independently
-require stability
-hold authority and decision-making power
-operate in social context
Team based projects
have some successes but also can fail 50-70% of the time
Teams in companies
Companies build and support teams because of their effect on overall work -place performance, both organizational and individual. They can improve.
Manager-led team
The manager is the team leader and is in charge of setting team goals, assigning tasks, and monitoring the team’s performance. The individual team members have relatively little autonomy. (Executing plans)
Self-managed teams
have considerable autonomy. they are usually small and often absorb activities that were once performed by traditional supervisors. A manager or team leader may determine overall goals, but the members of the self-managed team control the activities needed to achieve those goals.
Cross-Functional teams
Teams that cut across an organization’s functional areas (operations, marketing, finance). It’s assigned to take advantage of the special expertise of members drawn from different functional areas of the company.
Virtual teams
Technologies such as video conferencing allow people to interact simultaneously and in real time, offering a number of advantages in conducting business.
Factors for effective teamwork
-members depend on each other
-members trust one another
-members work better together rather than individually
-members become boosters
-members enjoy being on a team
-leadership rotates
Group consciousness
the attractiveness of a team to its members
Factors to team cohesiveness
-Size, big teams are not desirable when they are too large
-similarity, people get along better with people like them
-success, when teams are successful members are happy
-exclusiveness, the harder to get in the more the members are happy
-Competition, membership higher when outperforming other teams
Group think
The tendency to conform to group pressure in making decisions, while failing to think critically or to consider outside influences
Motivation
When motivation is low so is the effectiveness and productivity. Maintaining motivation is the chief cause of frustration among teams.
Factors that erode performance
-unwillingness to cooperate
-lack of managerial support
-failure of managers to delegate authority
