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    This document discusses team dynamics and effectiveness. It addresses what teams are, how they form, different types of teams, factors that influence team performance and cohesion, and challenges that virtual teams face. The key points are that teams exist to achieve common goals, smaller teams tend to be more effective due to less coordination needs, and factors like member similarity, interaction, success, and challenges can impact a team's cohesion and functioning.

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    Topic 8:

    Team Dynamics

    1-1
    What are Teams?

     Groups of two or more


    people
     Exist to fulfill a purpose
     Interdependent -- interact
    and influence each other
     Mutually accountable for
    achieving common goals

    8-2
    Informal Groups

     Groups that exist primarily for the benefit of


    their members
     Reasons why informal groups exist:
    1. Innate drive to bond

    2. Social identity -- we define ourselves by group


    memberships
    3. Goal accomplishment

    4. Emotional support

    8-3
    How to Minimize Social Loafing

    • Form smaller teams


    • Specialize tasks
    • Measure individual performance
    • Increase job enrichment

    8-4
    Team Effectiveness Model

    8-5
    Team Size

     Smaller teams are better because:


    • need less time to coordinate roles and resolve
    differences
    • require less time to develop more member
    involvement, thus higher commitment

     But team must be large enough to


    accomplish task

    8-6
    Team Composition

     Effective team members


    must be willing and able to
    work on the team
     Effective team members
    possess specific
    competencies (5 C’s)

    8-7
    Five C’s of Team Member
    Competencies

    8-8
    Stages of Team Development

    Performing

    Norming

    Storming

    Existing teams
    Forming might regress Adjourning
    back to an
    earlier stage of
    development
    8-9
    Team Norms

     Informal rules and shared expectations team


    establishes to regulate member behaviors

     Norms develop through:


    • Initial team experiences
    • Critical events in team’s history
    • Experience/values members bring to the team

    8-10
    Preventing/Changing Dysfunctional
    Team Norms
     State desired norms when forming teams
     Select members with preferred values
     Discuss counter-productive norms
     Reward behaviors representing desired
    norms
     Disband teams with dysfunctional norms

    8-11
    Team Cohesion

     The degree of attraction people feel toward the team


    and their motivation to remain members
     Both cognitive and emotional process
     Related to the team member’s social identity

    8-12
    Influences on Team Cohesion

    Member • Similarity-attraction effect


    similarity • Some forms of diversity have less effect

    Team
    • Smaller teams tend to be more cohesive
    size

    Member • Regular interaction increases cohesion


    interaction • Calls for tasks with high interdependence

    8-13
    Influences on Team Cohesion (con’t)

    Somewhat • Team eliteness increases cohesion


    difficult entry • But lower cohesion with severe initiation

    Team • Successful teams fulfillmember needs


    success • Success increases social identity with team

    External • Challenges increase cohesion when not


    challenges overwhelming

    8-14
    Virtual Teams
    Teams whose members operate across space, time,
    and organizational boundaries and are linked
    through information technologies to achieve
    organizational tasks

    • Increasingly possible because of:


    - Information technologies
    - Knowledge-based work

    • Increasingly necessary because of:


    - Organizational learning (knowledge mgmt)
    - Globalization

    8-15

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