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311 Test 2
Exam 2
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Management
Undergraduate 3
11/07/2007

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Term

Name Types of Groups

Definition

  Informal groups- Friendship group, cliques

  Nominal Groups-  People with weak collective identity

  Task Group- Groups created to accomplish certain goals.

Term
Describe an Effective Group
Definition

Group knows why they exist and have shared goals

 

Communicate Freely among themselves

 

Receive help from one another and give help to one another

 

Deal with confict within the group

Term
Describe a Functional team
Definition

Employees who work together daily on similar tasks and must coordinate their efforts

 

Self-managed

Problem solving

 

Term
Problem Solving Team
Definition

Members who focus on a specific issue, develop a potential solution and are often empowered to take action within their limits

 

In essence they are able to find solutions to problems on their own

Term
Cross Functional Team
Definition

Refers to members from various work areas who identify and solve mutual problems

 

Members from different departments

Term
Self Managed Teams
Definition

Highly interdependent and empowered members who work together daily to manufacture an entire product

 

They are empowered in that they have independence, they are performing meaningful tasks

Term
Virtual Team
Definition

A team whose members collaborate through various information technologies while located at two ro more locations.

 

Video conferencing

 

Term
Global Team
Definition
Members are from a variety of countries and are seperated by time, distance, culture ad native language. 
Term

Name and Describe the Stages of Team Development

Definition

Forming-understanding goals and how to perform tasks, members roles

Storming- confilicts in work behaviors, priorities of goals, who is responsible for what, this section may be avoided if team mebers use teambuilding from the start

Norming- Sharing of information, setting rules

Performing-  Team Members have learned how t work with one another

Adjourning- termination fo work behaviors and disbanding of team

Term
Groupthink
Definition

Thinking the group is invincible

 

Pressure is put on the mebers to stick with the teams ideas

 

Members do not present counterarguments "if everyone feels this way I must be wrong"

Term
Freeriding
Definition
A person who obtains benefits from the group but does not help to generate the benefit this can cause the sucker effect and cause other team mebers to withhold effort
Term
Absence of Trust
Definition

Members conceal weaknesses and mistakes from one another

 

Hesitate to ask for help or provide feedback

 

Hesitate to offer help outside their own area of responsibility

 

Jump to conclusions about the intentions of others without clarifying them

 

Do not recognize and tap into anothers skills and experiences

Term

Key Influences on Team Effectiveness

Definition

Context-working conditions, technology, management practices

 

Goals-outcomes desired for the team as a whole

 

Team size-the larger the harder to communicate the smaller the easier

 

Task oriented role- initiating new ideas, giving information that is relevant to the teams problems

 

Relations-Oriented Role- encouring members, encouraging participation

 

Self-Oriented Role-blocking progress y being negative, dominating the team, avoiding involvement

Term
What are Norms
Definition
The rules and patterns of behavior that are accepted and expected by members of a team
Term
Cohesiveness
Definition
The strength of a members desire to stay in the team
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