BUS 272 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Team Effectiveness, Work Council, Social Loafing

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 272
• Professor: Sam Ajit Thiara

Document Summary

Teams: groups of two or more people who interact and inluence each other, are mutually accountable for achieving organizaional goals, and perceive themselves as a social enity within an organizaion. Held together by interdependence and collaboraion to achieve common goals. Permanence: how long the teams stay together and stay formed. i. e. acion teams disband quickly. Skill difereniaion: degree to which individuals bring diverse skills and knowledge to the team i. e. advisory teams have high and funcional teams have less. Authority difereniaion: degree that decision making responsibility is distributed throughout the team. High in departmental teams and low in self directed teams. Similar or complementary skills and are located in the same unit of a funcional structure; low task interdependence. Muliskilled team members collecively produce a common product/service or make ongoing decisions. Similar to producion teams except (1) organized around work processes that complete an enire piece of work requiring several interdependent tasks (2) autonomy over the execuion of tasks.