ADMS 2400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6,7,8,10,11,13, &14: Punctuated Equilibrium, Virtual Team, Alarm Clock
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Chapter 6
• A group is two or more people with a common relationship
• A team is a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a
common purpose
• Groups become teams when they meet the following conditions
1. Team members share leadership
2. Both individuals and the team share accountability for the work of the team
3. The team develops its own purpose or mission
4. The team works on problem solving continuously, rather than just at scheduled
meeting times
5. The teams easue of effetieess is the tea’s outoes ad goals, ot
individual outcomes and goals
Why have teams become so popular?
• Teams have the capability to quickly assemble, deploy, refocus, and disband
Types of teams likely to find in an organization
• Problem-solving (or process improvement) team: a group of 5 to 12 employees form
the same department who meet for a few hours each week to discuss ways of improving
quality, efficiency, and the work environment (they only make recommendations)
• Self-managed (or self-directed) teams: a group of 5 to 10 employees who take on many
of the responsibilities of their former managers (they act)
• cross-functional teams: a group of employees at about the same hierarchal level, but
from different work areas, who come together to accomplish a task
• virtual team: a team that uses computer technology to tie together physically dispersed
members to achieve a common goal
multiteam systems
• a collection of 2 or more interdependent teams that share a superordinate goals; a team
of teams
roles
• role: a set of expected behaviours of a person in a given position in a social unit
• role expectations: how other believe a person should act in a given situation
• role conflict: a situation in which an individual finds that complying with one role
requirements may make it more difficult to comply with another
• role ambiguity: a person is unclear about his or her role
• role overload: too much is expected of someone
• role underload: too little is expected of someone, and the person feels like they are not
contributing to the group
norms
• norms: an acceptable standard of behavior within a group that are shared by the
goup’s ees
• common norms have to do with issues such as
1. performance: how hard to work, level of output, and quality of output
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2. appearance: dress codes, when to look busy, when to goof off, how to show
loyalty
3. social arrangement: with whom to eat lunch, whether to for friendships on and
off the job
4. allocation of resources: pay, assignment, allocation of tools and equipment
• how norms are formed
1. explicit statement made by a group member: often instructions from the groups
supervisor or a powerful member
2. critical events in the groups history: these set important precedents
3. primacy: the first behavioral pattern that emerges in a group frequently sets
team expectations
4. carry over behaviors from past situations: group members bring expectations
with them from other groups to which they have belonged
• what makes a norm important
1. it facilitates the groups survival: goups do’t like to fail so the seek a os
that will increase their chances of success
2. it increases the preditaility of group memers’ ehaviours: they can
atiipate oe aothe’s atios ad pepae appopiate esposes
3. it reduces embarrassing interpersonal problems for group members: prevent as
much interpersonal discomfort as possible
4. it allows members to express the central values of the group and clarify what is
distinctive about the groups identity: helps solidify and maintain the group
conformity
• adjusting ones behavior to align with the norms of the group
Tuka’s 5 stage odel
• Pre-group – the first stage, characterized by much uncertainty
Forming – members try to understand the boundaries in the team and get a feel for
what is expected of them
Storming – oflit eeges ad affets soe elatioships as ell as has the tea’s
progress
Norming – members realize that they need to work together to accomplish team goals
and feelings of solidarity emerge
Performing - members are comfortable working within their roles, and the team makes
progress toward goals
Adjourning – members realize that the end of the team is near
The punctuated-equilibrium model
• Tepoa goups ith deadlies do’t follo the peious odel
– The first meeting set the groups direction
– The first phase of group activity is one of inertia
– A transition takes place exactly when the group has used up half is allotted times
– This transition initiates major changes
– A second phase of inertia follows the transition
– The groups last meeting is characterized by markedly accelerated activity
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• Phase one
– First meeting sets team direction
– Once set it becomes written in stone
– The team is incapable of acting on these new insights in phase 1
– No did their assigned task
– Performing at a relatively slow state
• Phase two
– Teams experience their transition
precisely halfway between the
first meeting and the official
deadline
– The midpoint appears to work like
an alarm clock, heightening
ee’s awareness that their
time is limited and that they need
to get moving
– In this phase the team executes
plans created during the
transition period
– The team last meeting is characterized by a final burst of activity to finish its
work
Applying the punctuated equilibrium model
• The five stage model considers the interpersonal process of the group, while the
punctuated equilibrium model considers the time challenges that the group faces
Creating effective teams
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Document Summary
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