MSCI211 Study Guide - Final Guide: Voicemail, Information Management, Policy

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Management Sciences
• Course: MSCI211
• Professor: Clifford Blake

Document Summary

Team = a small group of people with complementary skills who work together actively to achieve a common purpose that together hold themselves accountable for. Group = involve two or more people interacting with each other either to achieve a common goal, as in a team. To recommend things: temporary group (e. g. , task force, ad hoc committee, project teams) to study problem and recommend solutions. Create to study specific problem and recommend solutions, they work with target completion date and break up once they have achieved their purpose. These teams must be quick at learning how to work well together, accomplished the assigned task, make good action recommendations for follow-up work by other people. Ex: federal government often relies on these teams. To run things: management teams with responsibility for leading other groups. To make or do things: perform ongoing tasks. General sense of purpose translated into specific performance objectives. Right mix skills include technical, problem-solving and interpersonal skills.