TEAM CHARACTERISISTICS & DIVERSITY

Team types

Team interdependence

Team composition

Team

Definition

Team characteristic

a group of people with a common purpose, bound together
into a group sharing a job.

Team characteristics provide a means of categorizing and examining teams.

Team characteristic contains

Team interdependence

Team composition

Team types

Parallel teams

Project teams

Management teams

Action teams

Work teams

Members have autonomy in defining their roles
in decision making.

Focus on the accomplishment
of core operational level production and service tasks.

Members work together to
produce goods and provide services.

Participate in managerial-level tasks
that affect the entire organization

Composed of members from various jobs who provide recommendations to managers about important issues that run “parallel” to the organization’s production processes.

Take on “one-time” tasks that are generally complex and require a lot of input from members with different types of training and expertise.

specialized teams that focus on producing a product or a service through highly coordinated actions.

In teams, the members depend on each other outcomes.

The degree team members interact with and rely on other team members for the information, materials, and resources needed to accomplish work for the team.

6 types

Sequential Interdependence

Reciprocal Interdependence

Pooled Interdependence

Comprehensive Interdependence

Group members complete work independently then this work is simply “piled up” to represent the group’s output.

Different tasks are done in a prescribed order, and the group is structured (members specialize in these tasks)

Members are specialized to perform specific
tasks, interact with a subset of other members to complete the team's work.

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.

Goal Interdependence

Outcome Interdependence

Team members have a shared vision of the team's goals.

Team members share in the rewards that the team earns.

Makeup of a team in terms of the roles, skills, and expertise of its members.

5 types

Member Personality

Team Diversity

Member Ability

Team Size

Member Roles

Specific responsibilities and functions that each individual is expected to fulfill.

Skills, knowledge, expertise, and capabilities that individuals bring to a team.

Unique set of traits, characteristics, and behavioral tendencies that individuals bring to a team.

Members have many differences which can come from demographics or other.

The number of members in the team.

Team characteristics can influence team effectiveness

Performance

Commitment