BUAD870 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2,5,9,10: Social Loafing, Transformational Leadership

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUAD870
• Professor: Bullough Amanda

Document Summary

According to katzenbach and smith, a team is a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they are mutually accountable. A work team generates positive synergy through coordinated effort where individual efforts result in a level of performance that is greater than the sum of those individual inputs. Developing a functional team can be a significant part of an effective workplace. It allows organizations to better utilize employee talents. They are more flexible and responsive to changing events, and can quickly be assembled, deployed, refocused, and disbanded as needed. The motivational properties of teams are also significant. The role of employee involvement is also a motivator, since teams facilitate employee participation in operating decisions (robbins & Rather, team building goes through a series of steps before a high functional wholesome entity is created which include forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning.