HROB 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Groupthink

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 3100
• Professor: Jamie Gruman

Document Summary

Chapter 9 building efecive teams and teamwork. Teams groups of people who are interdependent in the task they perform who afect one another"s behaviour through interacion and who see themselves as a unique enity. Hackman ideniied a set of common inhibitors to efecive team performance, including: rewarding performance and recognizing individuals instead of the team, not maintaining stability of membership over ime, not providing autonomy, not fostering interdependence, failure to orient. Need to orient members, establish trust, establish relaionships, establish clarity of purpose, norms, procedures and expectaions: norming. Inspect the performance and acion plans of this lower family team were measured and monitored. Teams are exposed to the informaion 4 imes. Groupthink occurs when the cohesiveness and ineria developed in a team drives out the good decision making and problem solving. typically occurs when the following atributes develop in teams. To be an efecive team leader you must have the respect and commitment of your team members.