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Team: Characteristics and diversity - Coggle Diagram
Team: Characteristics and diversity
Definition
A group of people with a common purpose and sharing a job
Performing interdependent tasks to work toward accomplishing a common mission
Team characteristics
Team types
Work teams
A relatively permanent team in which members work together to produce goods and provide services.
Management teams
Management teams participate in managerial-level tasks that affect the entire organization.
Example: The top management team: CEO, CFO, CMO, COO
Parallel teams
Parallel teams are composed of members from various jobs who provide recommendations to managers about important issues that run “parallel” to the organization’s production processes.
Example: a quality circle
Action teams
Action teams are specialized teams that focus on producing a product or a service through highly coordinated actions.
Example: sports teams, surgery teams, police squads, military units, and musical groups.
Project teams
Project teams are formed to take on “onetime” tasks that are generally complex and require a lot of input from members with different types of training and expertise.
Example: a construction company received an order to build a tower. Therefore, they created a project team comprised of engineers, architects, designers, and builders.
Team compositions
Member roles
A specific responsibilities and functions that each individuals is expected to fulfill
Leader-staff teams, team task role, team-building roles
Member ability
The skills, knowledge, expertise and capabilities that individuals bring to a team
Interpersonal abilities, Problem-solving abilities, Creativity and innovation
Member personality
The unique set of traits, characteristics, and behavioral tendencies that individuals bring to a team
Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness
Member diversity
Team members have many differences, which can come from: Demographics and other
Team Interdependence
In teams the member dependent on each other for tasks, goals and outcomes.
Pooled Interdependence:
Group members complete their work assignments independently, and then this work is simply “piled up” to represent the group’s output.
Sequential Interdependence:
Different tasks are done in a prescribed order, and the group is structured such that the members specialize in these tasks.
Reciprocal Interdependence:
Similar to sequential interdependence, members are specialized to perform specific tasks. However, instead of a strict sequence of activities, members interact with a subset of other members to complete the team ’s work.
Comprehensive Interdependence
In groups with comprehensive interdependence, members have a great deal of discretion in terms of what they do and with whom they interact in the course of the collaboration involved in accomplishing the team ’s work.
Definition
Team characteristics provide a means of categorizing and examining teams. An important role in determining what a team is capable of achieving and may influence the strategies and processes the team uses to reach its goals.
Team and group
Group
A number of people who are connected by some shared activities, interest
Member are independent and may not share a common goal
Specific roles and duties are not assigned to individuals
Members may not know each other
Team
A number of people associated together in work or activity
Member are interdependent and sharing a common cause or goal
Specific tasks are assigned to each individual
Members are aware of each other's weaknesses
Benefit of team: The interactions allow the team to pool complementary knowledge and skills
How team characteristics
influence team effectiveness?
Team Effectiveness
Team Performance
Team Commitment