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