Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Chapter 11: Chapter 11

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

Document Summary

Team: more than two people who work interdependently over some time period to accomplish common goals related to some task oriented purpose. Work teams: relative permanent teams in which members work together to produce goods. Management teams: relatively permanent team that participates in managerial- level tasks that affect the entire organization. Parallel teams: teams composed of members form various jobs within the organization that meet to provide recommendations about important issues. Project teams: teams formed to take on one-time tasks, most of which tend to be complex and require input form members from different functional areas. Action teams: teams of limited duration that performs complex tasks in contexts that end to be high visible and challenging. Virtual teams: team in which the members are geographically dispersed, and interdependent activity occurs through email, web conferencing, and instant messaging. 8(cid:882)(cid:882)% increase in numbers of virtual teams last decades. Two model of team development: forming.