Ch 13 Managing Groups And Teams

MGMT 312

--------------------------- (EIP): Any formal program that lets employees participate in formulationg important work decisions or in supervising all or part of their own work activities.

------------------- (G): Two or more persons who are interacting in such a way that each person influences and is influenced by each other person.

------------------------ (T): A group of people committed to a common purpose set of performance goals, and approach for which the team members hold themselves mutually accountable.

----------------------- (GN): The informal rules that groups adopt to regulate and regularize group members behavior.

-------------------- (GC): The degree of interpersonal attractiveness within a group, dependent on factors like proximity, similarities, attraction among the individual group members, group size, intergroup competition, and agreement about goals.

---------------------------- (ST): A team formed to work in the short term on a given issue such as increasing productivity.

----------------------- (PST): A team formed to identify and solve work-related problems.

----------------------- (QC): A team of 6 to 12 employees who meet about once per week on company time to slove problems affecting their work area.

------------------- (V): A small team that operates as a semiautonomous unit to create and develop a new idea.

------------------------- (TT): A work team composed of multinational members whose activities span many countries.

---------------------- (VT): groups of geographically and/or organizationally dispersed coworkers who interact using a combination of telecommunications and information technologies to accomplish an organizational task.

---------------------- (SDWT): A highly trained team of employees, including 6 to 18 people on average, who are fully responsible for turnign out a well defined segment of finished work.

--------------------- (F): The teams and their leaders begin working out their specific responsibilities.

-------------------------- (S): Questions typically arise regarding who is leading the team and what its structure and purpose should be.

----------------------------- (N): Team members agree on purpose, structure, and leadership and are prepared to start performing.

-------------------------- (P): A period of productivity, achievement, and pride as the team members work together to get the job done.

----------------------- (DAA): The group appoints a person to prepare a detailed counterargument that lists what is wrong with the goups favored solution and why the group should not adopt it.

--------------------- (B): A creativity stimulating technique in which prior judgements and criticisms are specifically forbidden from being expressed and thus inhibiting the free flow of ideas, which are encouraged.

-------------------------- (DT): A multistage group decision-making process aimed at eliminating inhibitions or groupthink through obtaining the written opinions of experts working independently.