Business Administration 3300K Quiz: session 5 - sports teams as a model for workplace teams

• School: Western University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: Business Administration 3300K
• Professor: Alexander Miller

Document Summary

Moo session 5: sport teams as a model for workplace teams - katz: generals. Sport team: team in which members play different positions, are interdependent and must work together closely to beat a competing team (soccer, basketball, volleyball, football) 2. 1 l1 integrate cooperation & competition: cultivating relationships that are simultaneously cooperative & competitive to have benefits of both teammates help one another but also push one another to perform at their best. Healthy competition: wanting to outperform teammates without undermining their performance; only possible when competition is acknowledged & treated positively. 2. 2 l2 orchestrate some early wins: teams hat got onto a good track tended to perform better as time passed (those having difficulties at start found that problems compounded over time) 2. 3 l3 break out of losing streaks. Downward spirals: easy to start, difficult to stop; team sees pattern of failures in its wake and predicts that failure is likely to occur.