groups and teams


  • characteristics of a team 
    • sense of belonging
      •  will try to help 
    • must know each other ( names, who they are) 
  •  kinds of groups in organizations  
    • appointed/ assigned by management 
    • any number of people who 
      • interact with each other 
    • formal group 
      • command groups 
      • task groups 
      • committees 
      • work teams 
    • informal group 
      • emerge - spontaneously develop 
      • interest groups 
      • friendship groups 
  • teams 
    • groups 
      • number of people interacting with one another 
      • psychologically aware of one anouther 
      • think of themselves as a group 
  • types of teams 
    • problem-solving teams 
      • set up to help eliminate a specified problem within an organization 
    • self-managed teams 
      • plans, orgnaizes, influences, controls own work situation with only minimal managerial intervention 
    • cross- functional teams 
      • people from different functional areas focusing on a specific objective 
  • stages of development 
    • forming 
      • team members become acquainted 
    • storming 
      • team members compete for roles 
    • norming 
      • team members set roles, rules, and acceptable behavior 
    • performing 
      • team members focus on performance 
    • adjourning 
      • team members finish jobs and disband 
  • team effectiveness 
    • people related factors 
      • personal work satisfaction 
      • mutual trust and team spirit
      • good communication 
      • low unresolved conflict and power struggle 
      • low threat, fail- safe, good job security  
    • organizational related factors 
      • organizational stability and job security 
      • involved, interested, supportive managment 
      • proper rewards and recognition of accomplishments 
      • stable goals and priorities 
    • task related factors 
      • clear objectives, directions and project plans 
      • proper technical direction and leadership 
      • autonomy and professionally challenging work 
      • experienced and qualified project/ team personnel 
      • team involvement and project visibility
    • effective team performance 
      • innovative ideas 
      • goals accomplished 
      • adaptive change 
      • high personal/ team commitment 
      • rated highly by upper management 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Mid-Term Study Guide

Image
MGMT 3070 Mid-Term Study Guide: 1.     What is Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling? Planning Setting organizational goal                                                                                                                                             ...
Read more
Aaron Rodriguez Ian Huang Kelly Nguyen Pedro Toribio Class Project 4 - Group 4 1) Discuss the benefits of situational leadership. (Hint: Explain how managers react in a particular situation) Situational leadership is a very flexible leadership style in which a manager in an organization can adjust his leadership style to the needs of the employees at any given situation. This is also one of the great benefits of situational leadership, the manager can pinpoint an employee’s needs and help him on the right direction to complete corresponding tasks. The benefit of the results is that it will help the employees improve their work performance which in turn will further the organization’s goals. Situational leadership is quite motivational. In this type of leadership managers tend to focus on their workers and if need be help them through a rough time in their lives and boost their moral wich will in turn boost the work moral. They will create a very supportive environme...
Read more
millennial ( generation y) born after 1980 generation x born between 1965-1980 baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964 silent ( greatest) generation born between 1928 and 1945 diversity challenges: ethnocentrism belief one's group, culture, country, and customs are far superior to those of other groups prejudice stereotype discrimination  tokenism diversity challenges women gender roles glass ceiling sexual harassment minorities older workers workers with disabilities eeoc how managers promote diversity planning diversity training programs and goals organizing recruiting, hiring, retaining diverse pool of employees influencing encouraging and supporting diverse work enviorment controlling evaluating diversity efforts to see if working
Read more