BUAD309 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Loafing, Affinity Group, Process Gain

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUAD309
• Professor: Levandusky, Natalie

Document Summary

Group: 2+ people interacting & influencing one another. Team: interdependent collection of 2+ people who share a common goal and accountability for outcomes. Command group: formal, relatively permanent group with functional reporting relationships that is included in the organization chart (usually hierarchal within one department) Affinity group: collections of employees from the same level in an organization who meet on regular basis to share information, find opportunities, and solve problems. Functional team: members come from the same department of the organization. Cross-functional team: members come from different departments or areas of organization, can increase creativity and speed up problem solving. Problem-solving teams: created for one specific purpose. Self-directed teams: teams that set their own goals & how they want to pursue them. Venture teams: teams that operate semi-autonomously to create and develop new products, processes, and businesses. Virtual teams: members communicate using the internet, geographically diverse. Challenges: geographic separation & isolation, functions are performed without a leader, & cultural differences.