ADMS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Web Conferencing, Team Building, Groupthink

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 1000
• Professor: Indira Somwaru

Document Summary

Team characteristics and processes: team characteristics, team development, task interdependence, team composition, team processes. Work teams: designed to be relatively permanent. Their purpose is to produce goods or provide services, and they generally require a full-time commitment from their members. Management teams: designed to (cid:271)e (cid:396)elati(cid:448)ely pe(cid:396)(cid:373)a(cid:374)e(cid:374)t. they"(cid:396)e responsible for coordinating the activities of organizational subunits to help the organization achieve its long-term goals. Parallel teams: composed of members from various jobs who provide recommendations to managers about important issues that run (cid:862)parallel(cid:863) to the organization"s production process. Project teams: formed to take on (cid:862)one-time(cid:863) tasks that are generally complex and require a lot of input from members with different types of training and expertise. Action teams: perform tasks that are normally limited in duration; tasks are quite complex and take place in contexts that are either highly visible to an audience or of a highly challenging nature.