Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Lecture 7: Lecture 7 - Team Characteristics & Processes

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Victoria Digby

Document Summary

Lecture 7 - team characteristics & processes. Team: two or more people interacting interdependently to achieve a common goal (usually a task- related goal) Makes clear who is and who is not in the group. Need not be face- to- face or verbal. Ie: communicating by video conference. We know this by who chats/communicates with one another (can be face- to- face or virtual/computer mediated) Reliance on other group members to accomplish goals. Ie: doctors and nurses rely on one another as part of a health care group. Relying on/linked to through rewards/goals/materials/information they share. Work teams: relatively permanent teams in which members work together to produce goods or provide services. Require full time commitment from members; members have high level of involvement and a long life span (day- to- day over time) Ie: a maintenance team works together to clean an office building every night.