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SOCIAL INTEGRATION AND GROUP & INTERGROUP BEHAVIOR, HOW CAN WE…
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TEAM
- a group of people with complementary skills, brought together to achieve a common purpose
TEAMWORK
- occurs when team members accept their collective responsibility to best use their skills by actively working together to achieve goals
TYPES OF TEAMS
- teams that recommend things
: :<3: established to study specific problems and recommend solutions to them
- teams that run things
:<3: have formal responsibility for leading other groups.
- teams that make or do things
:<3: functional groups that perform ongoing tasks
- formal teams
:<3: designated to serve a specific organizational purpose
- informal teams
:<3: emerge without being officially designated by the organization.
FORMAL GROUPS
- cross-functional teams
:star: consist of members representing different functional departments or work units.(manufacturing, marketing, human resources and accounting)
- functional silos problem
:star: occurs when members of functional units focus only on their internal functional matters and minimize their interactions with members dealing with other functions.
- employee involvement team
:star: teams whose members meet regularly to collectively examine important workplace issues.
- virtual team
:star: members convene and work together electronically
- advantage of virtual teams**
:check: cost-effectiveness and speed
:check: focuses task accomplishment and decision making
- disadvantage of virtual teams
:check: the lack of personal contact between team members may impair development of work relationship and productivity
:check: group decisions are made in limited social context
SELF MANAGING TEAMS
- small teams empowered to make the decisions needed to manage themselves on a day-to-day basis.
disadvantages of self-managing teams
:check: structural changes in job classifications and management
:check: managers must learn to deal with teams rather than individuals
:check: supervisors who are displaced by self-managing teams may feel threatenedadvantages of self-managing teams
:check: productivity and quality improvements
:check production flexibility and faster response to technological change.
:check: reduced absenteeism and turnover
:check improved work attitudes and quality of work life.
WHEN IS A TEAM EFFECTIVE
- achieve high levels of task performance, member satisfaction and team viability.
- synergy
:check: the creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts
- why teams are good for organizations
:check: good for people, can improve creativity, can make better decisions, can increase commitments to action, help control their members, teams help offset large organization size
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