TOS D: Team Dynamics - McShane Flashcards
Groups of two or more people who interact and influence each other, are mutually accountable for achieving common goals associated with organizational objectives, and perceive themselves as a social entity within an organization.
Teams
The knowledge and other resources available to people from a durable network that connects them to others.
Social capital
Resources (including time and energy) expended toward team
development and maintenance rather than the task.
Process losses
The principle that adding more people to a late software project only makes it later. Also called the mythical man-month.
Brook’s law
The problem that occurs when people exert less effort (and usually perform at a lower level) when working in teams than when working alone.
Social loafing
The problem that occurs when people exert less effort (and usually perform at a lower level) when working in teams than when working alone.
Task independence
The lowest level of interpedence
Pooled interdependence
It occurs where team members are organized in an assembly line.
Sequential interdependence
In which work output is exchanged back and forth among individuals, produces the highest degree of interdependence.
Reciprocal interdependence
It is a stages of team development where you will discover expectations, evaluate value of membership, defer to existing authority and tests boundaries of behavior.
Forming
It is a stages of team development where you will have interpersonal conflict, compete for team roles, influence goals and means, and: establish norms.
Storming
It is a stages of team development, that establish roles, agree on team objectives, form team mental models and develop cohesion.
Norming
It is stages of team of development, that has a task-oriented, committed, efficient coordination, high cooperation and trust, conflicts resolved quickly.
performing
It is a stage of team development, that occurs when the team is about to disband. They are shifted their attention away from task orientation to a relationship focus.
Adjourning
A set of behaviors that people are expected to perform because of the
positions they hold in a team and organization.
Role
A process that consists of formal activities intended to improve the development and functioning of a work team.
Team building
The informal rules and shared expectations that groups establish to regulate the behavior of their members.
Norms
The degree of attraction people feel toward the team and their motivation to remain.
Team cohesion.
Positive expectations one person has toward another person in situations involving risk.
Trust
represents a logical calculation that other team members will act appropriately because they face sanctions if their actions violate reasonable expectations.
Calculus-based trust
It is based on mutual understanding and an emotional bond among team members.
Identification-based trust
Cross-functional work groups that are organized around work processes, complete an entire piece of work requiring several inter-
dependent tasks, and have substantial autonomy over the execution of those task.
self-directed teams (SDTs)
Teams whose members operate across space, time, and organizational boundaries and are linked through information technologies to achieve organizational tasks.
Virtual teams
A time constraint in team decision
making due to the procedural
requirement that only one person may speak at a time.
Production blocking
