Term | Definition |
Teamwork | the combined action of a group of people, especially when effective and efficient. |
Team | come together as a team to achieve a common goal. |
Manager-Led-Team | Manager sets goal and tells how to do it |
Self-Managing Team | groups of 10-15 people who take on responsibility of their former supervisor |
Cross-Functional Team | is a group of people with different functional expertise working toward a common goal. It may include people from finance, marketing, operations, and human resources departments. Typically, it includes employees from all levels of an organization. |
Virtual Teams | is a group of individuals who work across time, space, and organizational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technology. |
Group Cohesiveness | a group to be in unity while working towards a goal or to satisfy the emotional needs of its members. |
Groupthink | the practice of thinking or making decisions as a group in a way that discourages creativity or individual responsibility. |
Cooperative | involving mutual assistance in working toward a common goal. |
Trust | onfidence placed in a person by making that person the nominal owner of property to be held or used for the benefit of one or more others. |
Leadership | the action of leading a group of people or an organization |
Leadership Style | is the manner and approach of providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating people. |
Autocratic Leadership | typically make choices based on their ideas and judgments and rarely accept advice from followers |
Democratic Leadership | in which members of the group take a more participative role in the decision-making process. |
Laissez-Faire Leadership | try to give the least possible guidance to subordinates, and try to achieve control through less obvious means. |
Transactional Leader | in which leaders promote compliance by followers through both rewards and punishments. |
Transformational Lead | In its ideal form, it creates valuable and positive change in the followers with the end goal of developing followers into leaders. |