ORGS 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Kurt Lewin, Brining, Organizational Ecology

• School: WLU
• Department: Organization Studies
• Course: ORGS 2010
• Professor: Eleanor Westney

Document Summary

One of the key attributes of the people employers want to hire is the ability to be a good team player . To learn how to be a good player, it involves: (1) both direct experience in teams and (2) in understanding of team processes based on decades of research on teams. We must make a distinction between a working group and a real team. Teams differ from working groups because they require both individual and mutual accountability. A discipline that real teams share include a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, set of performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable. A real team has four features: a team task, clear boundaries, clearly specified authority to manage their own work processes, membership stability over some reasonable period of time.