Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Chapter 11: Chapter 11

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Stelian Medianu

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Work teams: relatively permanent teams in which members work together to produce good or provide services. Management teams: relatively permanent teams that participate in managerial-levels tasks that affect the entire organizations. Responsible for coordinating the activities of organizational subunits to help the organization achieve its long-term goals. Parallel teams: teams composed of members from various jobs within the organization that meet to provide recommendations about important issues. Project teams: teams formed to take on one-time tasks, most of which tend to be complex and require input from members from different functional areas. Action teams: teams of limited duration that perform complex tasks in contexts that tend to be highly visible and challenging. Virtual teams: team in which the members are geographically dispersed and interdependent activity occurs through e-mail, web conferencing and instant messaging. Bring ideas to the team - committed to ideas b. Initial unwillingness to accommodate others can previously generated negatively affect interpersonal relationships a.