Name Types of Groups

  Informal groups- Friendship group, cliques

  Nominal Groups-  People with weak collective identity

  Task Group- Groups created to accomplish certain goals.

Group knows why they exist and have shared goals

Communicate Freely among themselves

Receive help from one another and give help to one another

Deal with confict within the group

Employees who work together daily on similar tasks and must coordinate their efforts

Self-managed

Problem solving

Members who focus on a specific issue, develop a potential solution and are often empowered to take action within their limits

In essence they are able to find solutions to problems on their own

Refers to members from various work areas who identify and solve mutual problems

Members from different departments

Highly interdependent and empowered members who work together daily to manufacture an entire product

They are empowered in that they have independence, they are performing meaningful tasks

A team whose members collaborate through various information technologies while located at two ro more locations.

Video conferencing

Name and Describe the Stages of Team Development

Forming-understanding goals and how to perform tasks, members roles

Storming- confilicts in work behaviors, priorities of goals, who is responsible for what, this section may be avoided if team mebers use teambuilding from the start

Norming- Sharing of information, setting rules

Performing-  Team Members have learned how t work with one another

Adjourning- termination fo work behaviors and disbanding of team

Thinking the group is invincible

Pressure is put on the mebers to stick with the teams ideas

Members do not present counterarguments "if everyone feels this way I must be wrong"

Members conceal weaknesses and mistakes from one another

Hesitate to ask for help or provide feedback

Hesitate to offer help outside their own area of responsibility

Jump to conclusions about the intentions of others without clarifying them

Do not recognize and tap into anothers skills and experiences

Key Influences on Team Effectiveness

Context-working conditions, technology, management practices

Goals-outcomes desired for the team as a whole

Team size-the larger the harder to communicate the smaller the easier

Task oriented role- initiating new ideas, giving information that is relevant to the teams problems

Relations-Oriented Role- encouring members, encouraging participation

Self-Oriented Role-blocking progress y being negative, dominating the team, avoiding involvement