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OB Ch10
Observational Behaviour Chapter 10, Scandura 2nd Edition
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Performing | Refers to the team producing collective work products in team development |
| Storming | Refers to emerging conflicts regarding the goals and contributions of team members and the possible challenges to the leader in the five-stage model of team development |
| Synergy | Refers to the ability of a team to produce something beyond the sum of individual member contributions |
| Self-managed work team | A work team that has no designated leader and has control over the specific ways tasks are being performed |
| Team metrics | Is a measure that assesses how a team is performing over time and they provide feedback to team members |
| Facilitators | Help the team to make decisions by asking questions and reflecting statements |
| Idea evaluation | A method of decision making that is a discussion of strengths and weaknesses of ideas |
| Brainstorming | One of the most common forms of team decisions making |
| Social loafing | Reduction in motivation and effort when individuals work collectively compared with when they work individually or coactively (i.e., work with others but do not combine inputs into a group product) |
| Team | Small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and an approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable |
| Work group | Interacts primarily to share information and make decisions to help one another perform within each member's area of responsibility |
| Work team | Generates coordinated effort; individual efforts result in a level of performance greater than the sum of individuals inputs |
| Work group | Not responsible for a collective work product |
| Work team | Create synergy |
| Work team | depend on one another and must interact to create something that no on person on the team could create |
| Team purpose | Increased competition forced restructuring for efficiency and effectiveness Better utilize employee talents Be more flexible and responsive to change Increase motivation |
| Team norms | Informal and interpersonal rules that team members are expected to follow May be explicit or implicit |
| Team charter | Team purpose are clarified and expectations for behavior are set forth Misunderstandings should be fewer and team members can be reminded of the group's norms |
| Team mental models | Team members' share, organized understanding and mental representation of knowledge about key elements of the team's relevant environment |
| Three functions of team mental models | Allow team members to interpret information similarly |
| Three functions of team mental models | Shared expectations concerning the future |
| Three functions of team mental models | Develop similar reasoning as to why something happens |
| Five-Stage Model | Forming Storming Norming Performing Adjourning |
| Forming | Clarify purpose and ground rules |
| Storming | Address conflict and maintain focus on purpose |
| Norming | Remind followers of ground rules and address deviations |
| Performing | Celebrate successes along the way to reaching the goal |
| Adjourning | Arrange a celebration to recognize the team's accomplishments |
| Punctuated equilibrium | Transition between an earlier phase of inactivity of a team followed by a second phase of significant acceleration toward task completion |
| Team metrics | Task metrics Process metrics Individual development metrics |
| Task metrics | The "what" of teamwork |
| Process metrics | The "how" of teamwork |
| Individual development metrics | The "learning" in teamwork (how individuals are developing new skills and learning from being on the team) |
| Team learning | Ongoing process through which teams acquire Originates at individual level, emerges at team level Higher learning orientation Psychological safety |
| Team creativity and innovation | Processes and outcomes of developing new ideas for innovation Encompasses what team members do behaviorally Communication of new ideas Positive behaviors of leaders |
| Cohesion | Team spirit experienced in high-performing teams |
| Cohesive groups | Perform better because they are more motivated and able to organize tasks around a common goal |
| Group think | Conformity-seeking tendency of the group that results in compromised decision making |