Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Module 13
LIS 580: Spring 2006
Instructor- Michael Crandall
Roadmap
Groups and teams
Characteristics of teams
Reasons for team failure
Leading teams
Improving team performance
Source: Adapted
from Steven
Rayner, Team
Traps: What
They Are, How to
Avoid Them.
National
Productivity
Review. Summer
1996, p. 107.
Reprinted by
permission of
John Wiley &
Sons, Inc.
FIGURE 133
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Checklist 13.2
Symptoms of Unproductive Teams
Nonaccomplishment of goals.
Cautious, guarded
communication.
Lack of disagreement.
Malfunctioning meetings.
Conflict within the team.
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Druskat, V.U. & J.V. Wheeler. (2004). How to Lead a Self-Managing Team
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Organizational
Organizational
Systems
Systems Team
TeamWork
Work
Approach
Approach
Organizational
Organizational
Policies
Policies
Employee
Employee
Skills
Skills
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Source: Adapted from information provided in Irving James, Group Think: Psychological
Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascos, 2nd ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982). FIGURE 137
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