Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Agreeableness, Knowledge Worker, Nominal Group Technique

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Sarah Jane Ross

Document Summary

Varies varies vary in duration and take place in highly visible or challenging circumstances. Self-managed work team, production team, maintenance team, sales team. Surgical team, musical group, expedition team, sports team. To achieve this create a mission statement for the team: outcome interdependence, the degree to which team members share equally in the feedback and rewards that result from the team achieving its goals. Team composition: the mix of the various characteristics that describe the individuals who work in the team, member roles, role: a pattern of behaviour a person is generally expected to display in a given context. Effects of team characteristics on performance and commitment: task interdependence has a moderate positive effect on team performance. However, the correlation is higher for teams involves in more complex knowledge work rather than less complex work: task interdependence has a weak relationship with team commitment.