ADMS 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Loafing, Virtual Team, Communication Problems

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 2400
• Professor: Len Karakowsky

Document Summary

Team- consists of two or more people who work interdependently over some time period to accomplish common goals related to some task-oriented purpose. The interactions among member with teams revolve around a deeper dependence on one another than the interactions within groups. The interactions within teams occur with a specific task- related purpose in mind. Types of teams: work teams- a relatively permanent team in which members work together to produce goods or provide services and they generally require a full-time commitment. Traditional work teams- members have very specific sets of job duties and their decision making is confined to the activities required by those duties. Members of self-managed work teams are not locked into specific jobs. Instead, they jointly decide how to organize themselves and carry out the team"s work: management teams- a relatively permanent team that participates in managerial-level tasks that affect the entire organization.