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Teams and Team Work
Teams and Team Work
Teams and Team Work
TEAMWORK
Activity:
• For those who didn’t win.. factor? Why?
• Do you consider you’re your group as a TEAM? Leave the question answer in the
end
Differentiate first
Groups vs. Teams
• Team –
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• - Social aggregation in which a limited number of individuals interact on a regular
basis to accomplish a set of shared objectives for which they have mutual
responsibility
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• - Particular form of work group
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• - TEAMS are Social units that work within a larger social system- the
organization
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• Team Members
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• have to work closely, interdependently and supportively
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• has distinct and clear roles
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• * ideally not more than 6 members
1. Forming * anxiety
2. Storming * conflict, opinion polarized
3. Norming * conflict resolved
4. Performing * carrying out task.. successfully
5. Adjourning
TYPES OF TEAMS
1. PROBLEM-SOLVING TEAM
• must have high degree of *TRUST, focus on issue rather than predetermined
positions
• ask the to give example.. * Center for Disease Control, etc..
2. CREATIVE TEAMS
3. TACTICAL TEAM
• must have *TASK CLARITY and ROLE DEFINITION, important that each
member understands their role
• example.. SWAT, cardiac operation team
however we may add another type of team.. it is a hybrid cross bet. Problem resolution-
tactical
AD HOC TEAM
4. rate of change in work activities * fast phased, need to cope up, before isa lng
gagawin
- continuos innovation to improve/ produce new product, modify services,
alter processes to improve quality
• teams are not always better than individual. Merely one means of performing
work
• constructive criticism
Principle 2 : Teamwork implies the willingness, preparedness, and proclivity to back
fellow members up during operation.
Principle 5 : Team leadership makes a difference with respect to the performance of the
team.
TEAM STRUCTURE
• ask what do we usually mean by DIVERSITY? Age, race, gender.. but team can
have two types of diversity
INFORMATION DIVERSITY
Differences of WHAT THEY KNOW (factual knowledge, experiences, etc.)
“CAN DO”
VALUE DIVERSITY
Differences with regards to taste, preferences, goals and interest (wide range)
“WILL DO”
• between the two, which diversity have positive influence on team performance?
TEAM PROCESSES
Process – operations within a team that permit to function smoothly and efficiently.
1. SOCIALIZATION
- process of mutual adjustment between the team and its members,
especially new members.
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2. INTERPERSONAL
Communication
Conflict
Cohesion
Trust
TJ’s PART.
Task Specific Information – allows them to act without need for discussion. * involves
particular procedure, actions, sequences.
Knowledge of Teammates – how well the members understand each other * helps
teammate compensate for one another
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5. DECISION MAKING
VIRTUAL TEAMS
Recent advances in technology and electronic communications allowed for a
formation of boundaryless virtual environment.. hence virtual team.
Requires identifying the best mix of personnel for effective team performance.
Involve complementing the abilities that individual will bring to the task and
considering those factors that account for individual compatibility.
When team outcomes are emphasized, individuals see less connection between their
own contributions and the recognitions/rewards they receive.
Three ways in which lack of individual incentives can contribute to social loafing
Sucker effect. Rather than be the member “who contributes more”, they lower their
effort and match the free rider.