Business Exam MGT 310 Chapter 1

Study for exam business management: Making the Team: Chapter 1

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Cards In This Set

Front Back
Why should organizations have teams?
Customer Service focus

Competition

Information Age

Globalization
Types of work teams
Manager-led

Self-managing

Self-designing

Self-governing
Manager led
Executing the task - team
Design of the organizational context - management
Design of the team as a performing unit - management
monitoring and managing performance - management
Self-managing
Design of the organizational context - management
Design of the team as a performing unit - management
monitoring and managing performance - team
executing the task - team
Self designing
Design of the organizational context - management
Design of the team as a performing unit - team
monitoring and managing performance - team
executing the task - team
Self governing
Design of the organizational context - team
Design of the team as a performing unit - team
monitoring and managing performance - team
executing the task - team
Sampling on the dependent variable
Scientific literature: looking for causes after they find effects
Hindsight bias
"I knew it all along" fallacy. The tendency to believe that something seems obvious, even inevitable, after you learn about it when you have not predicted (or cannot predict) what will happen.
Expert learning
Effective managers make mistakes, but they dont make the same mistakes twice
Singled loop learning
Learning that is primarily one dimensional.

ex. A leader may think that she has nothing to learn from a subordinate but that subordinate can learn from her.
Double loop learning
Effective learners engage in this process: involves a recipricol interchange between leaders and teams. Leaders not only coach and direct and instruct their teams, but the teams also help their leaders learn.
Inert knowledge problem
Key to whether knowledge is actually used or remains inert. They key to unlocking the pervasive inert knowledge problem lies in how the manager processes the information and when managers link examples to concepts, they learn better.
COnflict resolution
Recognize and encourage desirable, but discourage undesirable team conflict
Collaborative promblem solving
Recognize the obstacles to collaborative group prblem solving and implement apporopriate corrective actions
Communication
Listen non-evaluatively and appropriately use active listening techniques