TEAM AND TEAM DYANAMICS

By Rupesh Chandra
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FOCUS
What is Team? Group vs Team. Types Of Team. Why Informal Groups? Advantages Of Team. Trouble with Team. Minimizing Social Loafing. Team Effective Model. Teams Task & Size. Levels Of Task Interdependence. Team Composition. Team Development Stages Of Team Development Importance Of Team.

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TEAM OR GROUP?

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WHAT IS TEAM?

A team may be defined as a group whose members have complementary skills and are committed to a common purpose for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.

GROUP VS TEAM
Work Group

A group that interacts primarily to share information and to make decisions to help each group member perform within his or her area of responsibility. Work Team
A group whose individual efforts result in a performance that is greater than the sum of the individual inputs.

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TYPES OF TEAM
Problem-Solving Teams
Groups of 5 to 12 employees from the same department who meet for a few hours each week to discuss ways of improving quality, efficiency, and the work environment.

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Self-Managed Work Teams Groups of 10 to 15 people who take on the responsibilities of their former supervisors.

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Cross-Functional Teams

Employees from about the same hierarchical level, but from different work areas, who come together to accomplish a task.

Task forces
Committees

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Virtual Teams
Teams that use computer technology to tie together physically dispersed members in order to achieve a common goal.

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WHY INFORMAL GROUP?

1. 2.

Innate drive to bond Social identity

(We define ourselves by group memberships)

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4.

Goal accomplishment Emotional support

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ADVANTAGES OF TEAM
Compared

with individuals working alone, teams tend to:

Make

better decisions Make better products and services due to more knowledge and expertise Increase employee engagement

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TROUBLE WITH TEAM

Individuals better/faster on some tasks

Process losses - cost of developing and maintaining teams

Brooks Law -- more delays when adding members to a team already behind schedule

Social loafing

Occurs when individuals exert less effort when working in groups than alone

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MINIMIZING SOCIAL LOAFING

Make individual performance more visible

Form smaller teams Specialize tasks Measure individual performance

Increase employee motivation

Increase job enrichment Select motivated employees

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TEAM EFFECTIVE MODEL

Team Design Task characteristics Team size Organizational and Team Environment Team Processes Team development Team norms Team cohesiveness Team trust Team composition Team Effectiveness Achieve organizational goals Satisfy member needs Maintain team survival

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TEAMS TASK AND SIZE

Task characteristics
Better when tasks are clear, easy to implement Share common inputs, processes, or outcomes Task interdependence

Team size
Smaller teams are better But large enough to accomplish task

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LEVELS OF TASK INTERDEPENDENCE

High
A

Reciprocal
B C

Sequential

Resource

Low

Pooled
A B C
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TEAM COMPOSITION

Effective team members must be willing and able to work on the team Effective team members are good at the 5 Cs:

Cooperating Coordinating Communicating Comforting (psych support) Conflict resolving Homogeneous or heterogeneous, depending on task requirements

Team diversity

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TEAM DEVELOPMENT

Team development involves:

Interpersonal knowledge and trust Understand and agree on roles Discover appropriate behaviors Learn to coordinate with each other Develop team mental models

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STAGES OF TEAM DEVELOPMENT

Performing

Norming

Storming

Forming

Existing teams might regress back to an earlier stage of development

Adjourning
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THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

Stage 5 Collaboration

Stage 4 PERFORMING Individual Differentiation Stage 3 Confrontation Stage 1 Membership

STORMING Stage 2 Sub-Grouping

NORMING

FORMING

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IMPORTANCE OF TEAM
Better coordination Change acceptance Produces synergy Human being is a social animal Lead to greater efficiency and effectiveness Better human relations Commitment to team goals Improved organizational communication Improved employee motivation

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