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Week 12 - Creativity & Teamwork Flashcards

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1
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What do teams emerge through?

A

Adoption of a work method

Collaborative relationships

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What does it mean to be a team?

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When all members of a group work in harmony to achieve a common goal that benefits all members

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What are the immediate benefits of a team?

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Wider appreciation of learning
Cognitive flexibility
Increased perceived self-confidence

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What are the 4 C’s determinants of high-performing teams?

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Context
Composition
Competencies
Change

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Explain Context in terms of team (2)

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The organisational environment of the team

The need for teamwork, type of team needed and the culture, structure and systems that support teamwork

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What are the 2 important questions in a context setting?

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Is effective teamwork critical to accomplishing common goals?
Who are the supporters of the team

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What is key in regards to the context?

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effective context management

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Effective context management involves what (4) things?

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Measurable goals, team understanding, rewards systems and teamwork culture

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Explain Composition in terms of team

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Team members skills, experience and motivation, as well as team size

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10
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What is key in composition and accomplishing goals?

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Member motivation

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11
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How is team size managed? (4)

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By establishing adequate selection practices
Personal development
Cutting loose individuals who lack skills or motivation
Managing according to the skills and motivation levels

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What is Competencies in terms of a team?

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Teams ability to solve problems, communicate, make decisions and manage conflict

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What does it mean by Change in terms of teams?

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Teams ability to monitor its performance and make changes as needed

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High-performing teams have developed skills to change by what?

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Establishing team building processes

Establishing the ‘change’ philosophy

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15
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Being a team player is important for what?

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Career development

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What are some barriers to team creativity? (4)

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Process losses
Conversational bottle necks
Laziness
Fear of rejection

17
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How to lift the barriers to team creativity?

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Adopt formal rules to guide the group and avoid problematic behaviours

18
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What kind of rules are good? (4)

A

Go for quantity
Withhold criticism
Welcome wild ideas
Combine and improve ideas

19
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What are norms?

A

Collective mental representations of appropriate behaviour that guide behaviour in groups

20
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Social norms

A

Emerge over time as a result of repeated social interaction

21
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Team creativity can be explained in the context of what?

A

Norms

22
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What are the 5 key PIECE’s/behaviours underpinning team creativity within the norms perspectives?

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Participation
Independence
Elaboration
Communication
Exploration
23
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What is the Funnel Process?

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The more ideas/unusual ideas will be considered which will in turn maximise the chances of reaching a highly creative solution

24
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Participation might be affected by what?

A

Social loafing

25
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What 2 norms can boost participation?

A

Accountability Norm

Equity Norm

26
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What is the Accountability Norm?

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Shared expectation of 2 members that they will be asked to justify their beliefs and actions to others

27
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What is the Equity Norm?

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Awards are distributed depending on individual contribution

28
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What is meant by Independence?

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Teams expect that individuals contribute with unique perspectives
- However, these are lost

29
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What norm counters the pressure to conform?

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Individualistic norms

30
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What is Elaboration norms in the context of team creativity?

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A process of systematic evaluation of a novel idea and further clarifying it
- the reaction to expand existing ideas

31
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Where are communication norms particularly relevant?

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In culturally diverse groups (effective communication can be challenging)

32
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What can Exploration help do?

A

Implement innovation in groups

33
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What is one way to overcome exploration issues?

A

Risk taking norms

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