Basics Of A Team

Question 1

5 Key Characteristics of a Team

Answer 1

• Teams exist to achieve a shared goal
• Team members are interdependent regarding some common goal
• Teams are bounded and stable over time
• Team members have the authority to manage their own work and internal processes
• Teams operate in a social system context

Question 2

Work Team

Answer 2

An interdependent collection of individuals who share responsibility for specific outcomes for their organizations

Question 3

Social System Context

Answer 3

Teams are not islands unto themselves. They do their work in a larger organization, often alongside other teams

Question 4

Working Group

Answer 4

Consists of of people who learn from one another, share ideas but are not interdependent in an important fashion, and are not working toward a shared goal.

They share information, perspectives, and insights; and help people do their jobs better, but the focus is on individual goals and accountability

Question 5

Interdependence

Answer 5

People who work towards a shared goal

Question 6

Globalization

Answer 6

An increasingly global and fast-paced economy requires people with specialized expertise, yet the specialist within a company need to work together

Question 7

Manager-led Team

Answer 7

Most traditional type of team

The manager acts as the team leader and is responsible for defining the goals, methods, and functioning of the team.

The team itself is responsible only for the actual execution of their assigned work.

Question 8

Self-Managing Teams

Answer 8

A manager or leader determines the overall purpose or goal of the the team, but the team is at liberty to manage the methods by which to achieve that goal

Question 9

Self-Directing Teams

Answer 9

Determine their own objectives and the methods by which to achieve them

Question 10

Self-Governing Teams

Answer 10

Responsible for executing a task, managing their own performance processes, designing the group, and designing the organizational context