BUSX 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Group Cohesiveness, Groupthink, Organizational Communication
15 Jun 2019
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Manager-led (manager is in charge of setting goals, assigning tasks, and monitoring the team"s performance: 2. Self-managing (employees control the activities needed to meet overall goals: 3. Cross-functional (team members are from various functional areas: 4. If a group is high in cohesiveness, membership is quite satisfying to its members. Because teams must perform certain tasks, they need people with the skills to perform them: 2. Because teams are composed of people, and because people need direction and motivation and depend on communication, every group benefits from members who know how to listen, provide feedback, and smooth ruffled feathers. The same people are usually good at communicating the team"s goals and needs to outsiders: task-facilitating roles = address challenge number one accomplishing the team goals. If teams don"t confront dysfunctional members, they can destroy morale, hamper consensus building, create conflict, and hinder progress: class team projects, 1. Help team draw up a team charter: 2.
