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Organizational Effectiveness
• Team
– A group whose members work intensely
with each other to achieve a specific,
common goal or objective.
– All teams are groups but not all groups are
teams.
• Teams often are difficult to form.
• It takes time for members to learn how to
work together.
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Groups, Teams and
Organizational Effectiveness
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Teams as
Performance Enhancers
• Advantage of synergy
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Types of teams
• Cross-functional teams
– composed of members from different departments
(Planning, quality, HR, designing, finance; of same
level)
• Cross-cultural teams
– composed of members from different cultures or
countries
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Self-Managed Work Teams
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Problem-solving teams
•Context
•Composition
•Work Design
•Process
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Context
• Adequate resource
• Leadership and structure (multi-teams)
• Climate of trust
– Reduces the need to monitor each other’s behavior
– Allows a team to be willing to commit to its leader’s
decisions
• Performance evaluation and reward
systems
– Individual evaluation and reward system
(Incentives)
– Group-basedpRiNcE
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Composition
• Personality of members
– extravert
– Openness
– agreeable
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•Diversity of members
Member believe others have more
expertise, they will work to support them,
leading to more effectiveness
•Size of teams
The most effective teams have 5-9
members
Excess members cohesiveness and
mutual accountability decline social
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Work design
• Task identity
• Conflict level
– Task conflicts
– Relationship conflicts
• Social loafing
– Need to hold members accountable at both the individual and team
level
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