VERIFIED ANSWERS
two or more people who work interdependently over some time period to
accomplish common goals related to some task-oriented purpose
-special type of group
-the interactions among members within teams revolve around deeper
dependence on one another than the interactions within groups
-the interactions within teams occur with a specific task-related purpose in mind -
CORRECT ANSWER Team
Skill Differentiation
Authority Differentiation
Temporal Stability - CORRECT ANSWER Team Types
the degree to which members have specialized knowledge or functional
capabilities that make it more or less difficult to substitute members - CORRECT
ANSWER Skill Differentiation
the degree to which decision-making responsibility is vested in individual
members, subgroups of the team, or the collective as a whole - CORRECT ANSWER
authority differentiation
the degree to which team members have a history of working together in the past
and an expectation of working together in the future - CORRECT ANSWER
temporal stability
,-produce goods or provide services
-long life span
-high member involvement
EX: self managed work team, production team, maintenance team, sales team -
CORRECT ANSWER Work team
-integrate activities of subunits across business functions
-long life spans
-moderate involvement
EX: top management team - CORRECT ANSWER MGMT Team
-provides recommendations and resolve issues
-life span varies
-low member involvement
EX: quality circle, advisory council, committee - CORRECT ANSWER Parallel Team
-provide a one-time output (product, service, plan, design, etc.)
-life span varies
-member involvement varies
EX: product design team, research group, planning team - CORRECT ANSWER
Project team
-complex tasks, varying duration, highly visible, challenging circumstances
-life span varies
,-member involvement varies
EX: surgical team, musical group, expedition team, sports team - CORRECT
ANSWER Action team
-produce goods or provide services
-long life span
-high member involvement
EX: self managed work team, production team, maintenance team, sales team -
CORRECT ANSWER work team
when individuals are members of more than one team at a time - CORRECT
ANSWER multi-team membership
they are a new team that is being constituted every time
-group of expert specialists
-specific role positions
-perform brief events
-closely synchronized
-repeat these events across different environmental issues - CORRECT ANSWER
crews
teams in which the members are geographically dispersed, and interdependent
activity occurs through electronic communications- email, IM, web conferencing -
CORRECT ANSWER virutal teams
, two or more teams that interface directly and interdependently in response to
environmental contingencies toward the accomplishment of collective goals. MTS
boundaries are defined by virtue of the fact that - CORRECT ANSWER multi team
systems
-some develop in predictable sequence
-others do not - CORRECT ANSWER team development models
forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning - CORRECT ANSWER
predictable sequence
the first stage of team development, in which team members meet each other,
form initial impressions, and begin to establish team norms - CORRECT ANSWER
forming
the second stage of development, characterized by conflict and disagreement, in
which team members disagree over what the team should do and how it should
do it - CORRECT ANSWER storming
the third stage of team development, in which team members begin to settle into
their roles, group cohesion grows, and positive team norms develop - CORRECT
ANSWER norming
the fourth and final stage of team development, in which performance improves
because the team has matured into an effective, fully functioning team - CORRECT
ANSWER performing