MGCR 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Systems Analysis, Horizontal Integration, Problem Solving

• School: McGill University
• Department: Management Core
• Course: MGCR 222
• Professor: Ferguson

Document Summary

Team : a group of people brought together to use their complementary skills to achieve a common purpose for which they are collectively accountable. Teamwork: team members accept and live up to their collective accountability by working together = respective skills are best used to achieve team goals. Recommend things: study specific problems and recommend solutions. Run things: lead organizations and their component parts. Teams that make or do things: work units that perform ongoing tasks such as marketing, sales, systems analysis, manufacturing, or working on special projects with assigned due dates. Formal teams: official and designated to serve a specific purpose. Informal groups: coexist as a shadow to the formal structure, without any assigned purpose or official endorsement. Friendship groups: persons who like one another, they work together, sit together and take breaks together. Interest groups: persons who share job-related interests or non-work interests. Advantage of informal groups: create interpersonal relationships, companionship, sense of personal importance, speed up workflows.