ORGS 1000 Lecture 7: ORGS Week 6
20 Jul 2016
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A team consists of two or more people who work interdependently over some time period to accomplish common goals related to some task-orientated purpose. Interactions between members revolve around a deeper dependence on one another than the interactions within groups. Interactions within teams occur with a specific task-related purpose in mind. Teams are useful because they fool complementary knowledge and skills. Teams may also be useful to organizations in ways beyond just accomplishing the work itself. Team characteristics play an important role in determining what a team is capable of achieving and may influence the strategies and processes the team uses to reach its goals. Members work together to produce goods and/or provide services. They can vary in the degree to which members have autonomy in defining their roles and decision making. Traditional work teams have very specific set of job duties. Members of self-managed work teams are not locked into specific jobs.
