MHR 741 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: United German Hungarians Of Philadelphia And Vicinity, Interpersonal Attraction, Groupthink
19 Apr 2016
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Chapter 7: building effective teams and teamwork (ch. Team: a unit of two or more people who interact and coordinate their work to accomplish a specific goal. Self-managed work teams (smwts): members have autonomy/ empowered to carry out interdependence tasks and make decisions that were once reserved for managers. Reciprocal: have primary yet flexible responsibilities work is exchanged back and forth. Pooled: have set responsibilities and the performance of the team result from the sum of the performance. Sequential: the output of one team member becomes the input of another. Must be large enough o accomplish task. Members must be willing and able to work on the team. Extent to which team composition includes people with diverse knowledge, skills, perspectives. Behavioural norms: the standards that a work team uses to evaluate the behaviours of its members. Informal rules and expectations team establishes to regulate member behaviours. Productivity norms: may be consistent or inconsistent, supportive or unsupportive of organizations productivity standards.
