Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Slacker, Transactive Memory, Agreeableness

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Sarah Ross

Document Summary

Team: two or more people interacting interdependently to achieve a common goal interacting. Team means a common goal towards a task related purpose: makes clear who is and is not in the group, need not be face-to-face or verbal. Interdependently: reliance on other group members to accomplish goals. Ie) doctors and nurses rely on one another as a part of a health care group: today we talk about interdependence in different ways: task interdependence, goal interdependence, or a combination. Interdependence just means being linked to other members. Team characteristics: task, unit, and member qualities used to describe teams. Individualistic roles (e. g. , recognition seeker, slacker: member ability: the relevance of team member abilities to the team. This is one way of looking at different types of teams. 1 shows each team types with a definition and also goes through life span and member involvement, this is a good table to summarize the differences.