Teams in Organizations

Presented by Pawan Vijay

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 Teams in Organizations
• A team is a small group of people
with complimentary skills who work
together to achieve a common
purpose and hold themselves
mutually accountable for its
accomplishment

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 Teams in Organizations
• Teamwork is the process of people
working together in teams to
accomplish common goals

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 Teams in Organizations
• What can go wrong in teams?
– social loafing
– personality conflicts
– task ambiguity
– poor readiness to work
– poor teamwork

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 Teams in Organizations
• Cross-Functional Teams
– Members come from different functional
units and parts of an organization.
– Teams are created to knock down
“walls” separating departments.
– Team works on a specific problem or
task with the needs of the whole
organization in mind.

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•Teams in Organizations

• Virtual Teams
– employees who work together and
solve problems through largely
computer-mediated interactions
• local area networks
• wide area networks
• intranets
• electronic meeting rooms

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 •Teams in Organizations
• Self-Managing Work Teams
– workers whose jobs have been
redesigned to create a high degree of
task interdependence and who have
been given authority to make many
decisions about how they go about
doing the required work

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 Teams in Organizations
• In Self-Managing Work Teams,
Members
– are held collectively accountable for
performance results
– have discretion in distributing tasks
– have discretion in scheduling work
– are able to perform multiple tasks
– evaluate one another’s performance
contributions
– responsible for total quality of team products

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 How Teams Work
• Team Effectiveness
– two key results
• task performance
• member satisfaction
– effective teams have high levels of both
results

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 How Teams Work
• Stages of Team Development
– Forming - initial orientation and interpersonal
testing.
– Storming - conflict over tasks and ways of
operating as a team.
– Norming - consolidation around operating task
and agendas.
– Performing – teamwork and focused task
performance.
– Adjourning – task accomplishment and eventual
disengagement.

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 How Teams Work
• Norms and
Cohesiveness
– behavior expected
of team members
– can be enforces
with reprimands
and other sanctions

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11
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 How Teams Work
• How to Build Positive Norms
– acting as positive role model
– reinforcing desired behaviors
– controlling results by regular feedback
– orienting and training new members to adopt
desired behaviors
– holding regular meetings to discuss progress
– using team decision-making methods to reach
agreement

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 How Teams Work
• Cohesiveness
– degree to which members are attracted
to and want to remain part of a team
– can be good if paired with positive
performance norms
– more cohesiveness the greater
conformity of members to norms

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Decision Making in Teams
• Methods for Team
Decisions
– lack of response
– authority rule
– minority rule
– majority rule
– consensus
– unanimity

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Decision Making in Teams
• Assets and Liabilities of Team Decisions
– Potential Advantages
• information
• alternatives
• understanding, acceptance and commitment
– Potential Disadvantages
• social pressure to conform
• minority domination
• time demands

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Decision Making in Teams
• Groupthink
– tendency for highly
cohesive groups to
lose their critical
evaluative
capabilities

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16
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 Decision Making in Teams
• Symptoms of Groupthink
– illusions of group invulnerability
– rationalizing unpleasant data
– belief in inherent group morality
– negative stereotypes of competitors
– pressure to conform
– self-censorship
– illusions of unanimity
– mind guarding

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 Leadership and High
Performance Teams
• Team-Building Process
– Step 1 – problem awareness
– Step 2 – data gathering
– Step 3 – data analysis and diagnosis
– Step 4 – action planning
– Step 5 – action implementation
– Step 6 - evaluation

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 Leadership and High
Performance Teams
• Leadership Challenges
– establish clear vision of future
– create change
– unleash talent

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