Teams

• Team


  A particular type of group—one whose members are working together in the pursuit of a shared goal
• Teamwork


  The collaborative effort of two or more individuals working together to achieve a common goal or complete a task. It is characterized by task-oriented interdependence, where each member's efforts are integrated and contribute to the overall outcome.
• Varieties of Teams

  • Work Teams
  • Management Teams
  • Project Teams
  • Advisory Teams
  • Self-Managing Teams
  • Cross-functional teams
• Boundary Spanners


  Individuals who establish relationships with people, groups, or organizations outside of their own group
• Multiteam System


  Networks of interrelated teams united by common purposes
• Open Systems Theory


  Defined a system to be a "complex of mutually interacting components"
• Input-Process-Output Model


  A model for understanding team dynamics

  
• Antecedent Factors that Influence Teams

  • Individual-level factors
  • Team-level factors
  • Contextual and environmental-level factors
• Team Composition


  The individuals who were selected to make up the team
• Team Personality


  The personality traits of the team members
• Five-Factor Model of Personality

  • Consciousness
  • Extraversion
  • Agreeableness
  • Emotional Stability (or low neuroticism)
  • Openness
• Team Orientation


  Individuals' beliefs about groups
• Knowledge, Skill and Ability (KSA)


  The qualities and characteristics needed to complete a job or task successfully
• Types of KSAs

  • Task-relevant proficiencies
  • Interpersonal skills
• Collective Intelligence


  Generalized proficiency of a team
• Basic Social Skills

  • Conversational skill
  • Emotional Sensitivity
  • Maintaining self-control
  • Making appropriate self-disclosures
  • Giving praise and encouragement as needed
  • Expressing agreement
• Teams


  A particular type of group—one whose members are working together in the pursuit of a shared goal
• Teamwork


  The collaborative effort of two or more individuals working together to achieve a common goal or complete a task. It is characterized by task-oriented interdependence, where each member's efforts are integrated and contribute to the overall outcome
• Varieties of Teams


  • Work Teams
  • Management Teams
  • Project Teams
  • Advisory Teams
  • Self-Managing Teams
  • Cross-functional teams
• Boundary Spanners


  Individuals who establish relationships with people, groups, or organizations outside of their own group
• Multiteam System


  Networks of interrelated teams united by common purposes
• Open Systems Theory


  Defined a system to be a "complex of mutually interacting components"
• Input-Process-Output Model


  A model for understanding team dynamics
• Input Factors


  • Individual-level factors
  • Team-level factors
  • Contextual and environmental-level factors
• Team Composition


  The individuals who were selected to make up the team
• Team Personality


  The personality traits of the team members
• Five-Factor Model of Personality

  • Consciousness
  • Extraversion
  • Agreeableness
  • Emotional Stability (or low neuroticism)
  • Openness
• Team Orientation


  Individuals' beliefs about groups
• Knowledge, Skill and Ability (KSA)


  The qualities and characteristics needed for success at a task
• Types of KSAs

  • Task-relevant proficiencies
  • Interpersonal skills
• Collective Intelligence


  Generalized proficiency of a team
• Basic Social Skills


  • Conversational skill
  • Emotional Sensitivity
  • Maintaining self-control
  • Making appropriate self-disclosures
  • Giving praise and encouragement as needed
  • Expressing agreement
• Team Knowledge


  Understanding the unique interpersonal dynamics of teams themselves
• Categories of Diversity


  • Social-category differences
  • Differences in knowledge or skills
  • Differences in values or beliefs
  • Personality differences
  • Organizational or community-status differences
  • Differences in social and network ties
• Diverse teams


  Maximize performance on difficult tasks
• Diverse teams

  Have potential for process loss
• Diversity, when based on information and expertise, tends to improve team outcomes, particularly on difficult tasks
• Designing for Diversity


  1. Diverse teams need time to work through initial differences

  2. Minimize conflict by minimizing distinctions based on category memberships

  3. Organization's culture influences how teammates respond to diversity
• Interlocking Interdependence


  Improves transactive memory systems and enhances the development of common mental models, which both improve team performance
• Shared Mental Models


  Knowledge, expectations, conceptualizations, and other cognitive representations that members of a group have in common pertaining to the group and its members, tasks, procedures, and resources