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Pg 487 If teams are used appropriately, they can be powerfully effective as a ___________________________
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Building block for organization structure
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Lecture class note p.488 Teams can increase:
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Productivity, improve quality, and reduce costs.
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Lecture class note p.488 Teams can enhance ________ and be powerful forces for :
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Enhance speed; powerful forces for innovation and change.
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Teams provide benefits for their members and is a very useful learning mechanism. True or False
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True
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Class Lecture note p.489
Team members can provide one another with __________; identify opportunities for growth and development; and train, coach, and mentor. criticism | communication | feedback | productivity |
Feedback.
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P. 489 A ____________ is a collection of people who work in the same area or have been drawn together to undertake a task but do not necessarily come together as a unit and achieve significant performance improvements.
team | working group | colleagues |
Working group
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P. 489 formed of people with complementary skills who trust one another and are committed to a common purpose, common performance goals, and a common approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.
team | working group | colleagues |
Team
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P. 488 teams that make/do things (i.e. manufacture, assemble, sell, or provide service); well defined; clear part of organizational structure; full-time, stable membership.
self-designing teams | parallel teams| project and development teams | work teams | management teams | virtual teams | transnational teams | self-managed teams |
Work teams
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P. 491 composed of multinational members whose activities span across multiple counties; geographically dispersed; psychologically distant; works on highly complex projects with considerable impact on company objectives.
self-designing teams | parallel teams| project and development teams | work teams | management teams | virtual teams | transnational teams | self-managed teams |
Transnational teams
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P. 490 teams that work on long term projects but disband once the work is completed.
self-designing teams | parallel teams| project and development teams | work teams | management teams | virtual teams | transnational teams | self-managed teams |
Project and development teams
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Teams that coordinate and provide direction to the subunits under their jurisdiction and integrate work among subunits.
self-designing teams | parallel teams| project and development teams | work teams | management teams | virtual teams | transnational teams | self-managed teams |
Management teams
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Pp. 491 teams that are physically dispersed and communicate electronically more than face-to-face.
self-designing teams | parallel teams| project and development teams | work teams | management teams | virtual teams | transnational teams | self-managed teams |
Virtual teams
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P. 492 trend of today; workers are trained to do all or most of the jobs in the unit, have no immediate supervisor, and make decisions previously made by front-line supervisors.
self-designing teams | parallel teams| project and development teams | work teams | management teams | virtual teams | transnational teams | self-managed teams |
Self-managed teams
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P 491 Virtual teams do not face the challenge of building trust, cohesion, team identity. True or False
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False
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P 492 Name some advantages and disadvantages of self-managed teams.
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Adv: more productivity, lower costs, provide better customer service, provide higher quality, have better safety records and more satisfying members compared to traditionally managed teams.
Disadv: people don't want responsibility; change is difficult, don't like performance evaluations of teammates or firing them; poorly managed conflict of a particular problem can occur. |
