Forming a team requires careful consideration of various elements, including the task at hand, the individuals involved, and the processes that will guide their collaboration. Effective teamwork hinges on the integration of collaborative behavior and mutual interaction.
Creative Teams
- Create smtg and think out of the box.
- exploring possibillities and alternatives.
Problem Solving Team
- Key feature involves Trust and respect
Tactical Teams
- Key obj is execute well defined plan.
- degree of task clarity is the key of succesful
Designing The Team: Task, Ppl, Process
Diversity
Managing Diversity
- Educate memebers on the adv of diversit
- Diversify all level
Challenges
- Surface vs Deep Level of Deveristy
> Surface (race, gender,etc)
> Deep (attitude, opinions, info)
- How much diversity
> Not always clear
- Conflict
- Bias in Performance Reviews
- Solo Status
> only the one of the race in the team
> more likely to be stereotyped by others
Advantages
Competitive advantage
Better decision making
Multiple viewpoint
Expanded Talent Pool
Building a Team: The People
- Skill to be considered: technical expertise, task management skills, interpersonal skill.
- self report: what are employee regard to their key strength
- past accomplishment
- 360' report: what are key strength and weakness of employee, peers, subordinate.
Buidling a Team: The Task
- Work that team will do
- Ppl who will do the work
- Procedure and process that the team will follow to achieve their goal
How much authority does team have?
- Trade off: more authoriy, high motivation & higly involved in work.
- A loss contol for the manager
- Team obj may not aligned with those larger orgn.
Is goal clearly defined?
- Goals should be clear and simple, specify ends.
- High performance orientation desire to gain favourable judgement of performance or avoid negative judments
- High learning orientation desire to und smtg novel or to increase competence in task.
Task that need to be done
- Teams are goal directed entities
- Preplanning
- On-line planning
- plan btw periods of task completion
3 types of Tasks Interdependence
Reciprocal Interdependence
- highest interdepence
- every member depend on all level, not juz a simple linear fashion.
Sequential Interdependence
- classic assembly line or division of labor, each member has particular of skill or task to perform.
Pooled interdependence
- Group member worked interdependently and combine their work later
Process: How to work together
B'viour Intergration
- team collaborative b'viour is intergrated
- mutual collective interaction
- more diverse goal, less intergrated
- more educational levels, less interegrated
Team Norms
- Development and enforcement
- Norms violation
- Changing norms
Team Structure
- High structure: specialized role and routines.
- Low Structure: Do not have set roles and given task.
