BUS 272 Lecture Notes - Nominal Group Technique, Organizational Learning, Brainstorming

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 272
• Professor: Graeme Coetzer

Document Summary

Interact and influence each other: mutually accountable organizational objectives for achieving common goals associated with, perceive themselves as a social entity within an organization. Informal groups: have little or no interdependence, exist for the benefit of their members, minimize employee stress (supporting each other) Departmental teams: consist of employees who have similar skills, located in the same unit of a functional structure, minimal task interdependence. Production/ service/ leadership teams: multiskilled teams who collectively produce a common product, have tight interactive interdependence. Self-directed teams: organized around work processes that complete an entire piece of work requiring several interdependent tasks, have substantial autonomy over the execution. Advisory teams: provide recommendations to decision makers. Task force teams: multiskilled, temporary teams whose assignment is to solve a problem, realize an opportunity, or design a product or service. Skunkworks: located away from the organization, relatively free of its hierarchy.