MHR 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Team Building, Peer Pressure, Virtual Team
16 Apr 2018
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Interdependent (connecting to others) interact and collaborate: groups of two or more people to fulfill a purpose or goal, mutually accountable for achieving common goals and influencing each other, perceive themselves to be a team. Types of teams: permanence how long that team exists, skill differentiation degree of skill and knowledge diversity, authority differentiation degree that decision making responsibility is distributed throughout the team or centralized. Informal groups: groups that exist primarily for the benefit of their members, reasons why informal groups exists, innate drive to bond, social identity we define ourselves by group memberships, goal accomplishment, emotional support. Organization/team environment: reward systems, communication systems, organizational leadership, organizational structure, physical space. Those skills might get wasted and lead to process loss: teams with more well-developed trans active memory systems outperform teams with less well developed systems. In teams with high efficacy individual team members are more likely to display coordination and cooperative type behaviour.
