MGMT100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Group Dynamics
MGMT100 – Managing People, Systems and Culture
Week 8 Workshop
Team Theory
Team:
• A small Group of people with complimentary skills, who work together to achieve a
shared purpose and hold themselves mutually accountable for performance results
• Problems:
- Personality conflicts
- Individual differences in work styles
- Ambiguous agendas
- Ill-defined problems
- Poor readiness of work
▪ Lack of motivation
▪ Conflicts with other commitments
▪ Lack of team organisation
▪ Meetings that lack purpose or structure
▪ Members coming to meetings unprepared
• Strengths:
- More resources for problem solving
- Improved creativity and innovation
- Greater commitments to tasks
- Higher motivation through collective action
- Better control and work discipline
- More individual need satisfaction
Teamwork:
• The process of people actively working together to accomplish common goals
Groups:
• Formal Groups:
- Teams that are officially recognised and supported by the organisation for
specific purposes
- Specifically created to perform essential tasks
- Managers and leaders sere likig pi roles
• Informal Groups:
- Not recognised on organisational charts
- Not officially created for organisational purpose
- Emerge as part of the informal structure and from natural or spontaneous
relationships among people
- Include interest, friendship and support groups
- Can have positive performance impact
- Can satisfy social needs
• Cross-functional groups:
- Members come from different functional units of an organisation
- Team works on a specific problem or tasks with the needs of the whole
organisation in mind
- Teas are created to kock do alls
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Document Summary
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