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| A freewheeling, face to- face meeting where team members generate as many ideas as possible, piggyback on the ideas of others, and avoid evaluating anyone’s ideas during the idea-generation stage. |
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| Any situation where people debate their differing opinions about an issue in a way that keeps the conflict focused on the task rather than people. |
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| A structured team decision-making process of systematically pooling the collective knowledge of experts on a particular subject to make decisions, predict the future, or identify opposing views. |
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| Using special computer software participants share ideas while minimizing the team dynamics problems inherent in traditional brainstorming sessions. |
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| When individuals are reluctant to mention ideas that seem silly because they believe (often correctly) that other team members are silently evaluating them. |
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| The tendency of teams to make more extreme decisions than individuals working alone. |
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| The tendency of highly cohesive groups to value consensus at the price of decision quality. |
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| The balance that is struck between social and technical systems to maximize an operation’s effectiveness. |
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| A structured team decision-making process whereby team members independently write down ideas, describe and clarify them to the group, and then independently rank or vote on them. |
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| A time constraint in team decision making due to the procedural requirement that only one person may speak at a time. |
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| self-directed work teams (SDWTs) |
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| Cross-functional work groups organized around work processes, that complete an entire piece of work requiring several interdependent tasks, and that have substantial autonomy over the execution of those tasks. |
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| sociotechnical systems (STS) theory |
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| A theory stating that effective work sites have joint optimization of their social and technological systems, and that teams should have sufficient autonomy to control key variances in the work process. |
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| Any formal activity intended to improve the development and functioning of a team. |
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| A psychological state comprising the intention to accept vulnerability based upon positive expectations of the intent or behavior of another person. (4) (10) |
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| Teams whose members operate across space, time, and organizational boundaries and linked through information technologies to achieve organizational tasks. |
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