MGCR 222 Lecture 8: Chapter 8

• School: McGill University
• Department: Management Core
• Course: MGCR 222
• Professor: Ferguson

Document Summary

Shared sense of purpose: gives general direction to a team, commitment to targeted performance results. Set standards, measure results and gather performance feedback. Clear focus of when problems and conflicts must be solved. Values: strong core values help guide team members attitudes and behaviors. Collective intelligence: ability of a team to do well on a wide variety of tasks: research shows that ci is higher in teams : not dominated by one or few members and where teams have more female members. Managers and owners must examine problems, take corrective action to rebuilt the team and restore teamwork needed to achieve high-performance results. Team building: sequence of planned activities designed to gather and analyze data on the functioning of a team and to initiate changes designed to improve teamwork and increase team effectiveness. Outdoor experience approach: variety of physically challenging situations.