MAN 3025 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Peer Pressure, Stereotype, Virtual Team
26 Mar 2016
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Module 13 notes: increased productivity, increased speed, reduced costs, improved quality, reduced destructive internal competition, improved workplace cohesiveness. Can be more productive than formal groups. Have a positive effect on productivity and attitudes: top-management team, virtual team, work team. Advice teams- broaden the information base for managerial decisions. Production teams- responsible for performing day to day operations. Project teams- creative problem solving that often applies to the specialized knowledge of members. Action teams- accomplish tasks that require people with specialized training and a high degree of coordination. Five stages of development for a group or team: forming. Getting oriented and getting acquainted: storming. Individuals test the leader"s policies and assumptions: norming. Teams set guidelines related to what members will do together and how they will do it. Group cohesiveness- binding group members together: performing. Solving problems and completing tasks: adjourning. Most essential considerations in building a group into an effective team: cooperation.
