MGT 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mental Model, Trait Theory, Work Unit

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Management
• Course: MGT 500
• Professor: Ronda Smith

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Work group: a group that primarily interacts to: share information, make decisions, help each member of the group perform their responsibility. Work team: a group whose efforts on an individual basis result in greater performance than the individual sum of inputs. Problem-solving teams: groups of 5 to 12 employees from the same department who meet for a couple hours a week to talk about ways of improving work environment, quality, and efficiency. Self-managed work teams: groups of 10 to 15 employees who take on responsibilities of former supervisors they had. Cross-functional teams: employees from about the same level of hierarchy but are from different areas of work and come together to accomplish something. Virtual teams: teams that use computer technology to tie together members that are physically dispersed to achieve a common goal or task. Multiteam system: a collection of two or more interdependent teams that share a superordinate goal.