GMS 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Virtual Team, Team Effectiveness, Distributed Leadership
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Team is a collecion of people who regularly interact to pursue common goals. Teamwork is the process of people acively working together to accomplish common goals. Synergy is the creaion of a whole greater than the sum of its individual parts. Social loaing is the tendency of some people to avoid responsibility by free-riding" in groups. Formal group is oicially recognized and supported by the organizaion. Informal group is unoicial and emerges from relaionships and share interests among members. Commitee is designated to work on a special task on a coninuing basis. Project team or task force is convened for a speciic purpose and disbands when its task is completed. Cross-funcional team operates with members who come from diferent funcional units of an organizaion. Virtual team (distributed team) work together and solve problems through computer-based interacions. Self-managing work team have the authority to make decisions about how they share and complete their work.