ADM 2336 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Process Gain, Virtual Team, Web Conferencing
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Team: two or more people who work interdependently over some time period to accomplish common goals related to some task-oriented purpose. Work team: a relatively permanent team in which members work together to produce goods and/or provide services. Management team: a relatively permanent team that participates in managerial-level tasks that affect the entire organization. Parallel team: a team composed of members from various jobs within the organization that meets to provide recommendations about important issues. Project team: a team formed to take on one-time tasks, most of which tend to be complex and require input from members from different functional areas. Action team: a team of limited duration that performs complex tasks in contexts that tend to be highly visible and challenging. Virtual team: a team in which the members are geographically dispersed, and interdependent activity occurs through e-mail, web conferencing, and instant messaging.