Psychology 3694F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 5 articles: Social Desirability Bias, Job Performance, Transformational Leadership
19 Dec 2017
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Teams at work by: williams and allen (2008) Work teams: interdependent collections of individuals who share responsibility for specific outcomes for their organizations". Five dimensions distinguishing between teams at differing points on the continuum: task, goals, roles, process emphasis, performance demands. Benefits of teams: organizations face numerous situations in which teams are the only possible way to get the work done, team-based activity has social-emotional benefits for members. Indicators of team effectiveness: productivity, creativity/innovation, adapting to change, team viability, satisfaction of team members. Ipo (inputs-process-outcome: team inputs lead to team processes which, in turn, lead to outcomes, used to examine team research. Input variation: team composition: most research has focused on personality, cognitive ability, attitudinal and demographic variables, four aggregation approaches, team means, maximum member score, minimum member score, variability. Personality: relations between team-level personality and team performance are ideally considered in light of the task the team carries out.
