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13 Cards in this Set
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teams and groups |
2 or more people psychologically contracted together to achieve a common goal, and share responsibility and accountability for others |
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teams and groups |
similar to a team except: - no psychological contract - no interdependency is assumed |
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group dynamics |
concerned with how groups form, their structure, processes and how they function as a unit the study and analysis of any form of interactions that occurs within group contexts |
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why form groups? |
safety belongingness - in group bias, our group bias |
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in group bias |
the tendency to make favourable, positive attributions for behaviours of our in-group, and unfavourable, negative attributions of our out-group |
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classifying teams 1. skill differentiation |
refers to the degree to which team members have functional or specialised knowledge that makes each member replaceable |
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classifying teams 2. authority differentiation |
refers to how responsibility for decision making is handled within the team: is it responsibility of team as a whole; subgroups of a team; an individual member? |
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classifying teams 3. temporal stability |
refers to the degree to which team members have a history of working together in the past and whether they expect to work together in the future |
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group properties - social impact of group properties |
- strength of tires between individuals acting as a group - the spacio-temporal context of a group - size of the group |
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crowd sourcing |
the use of information technologies to outsource the business responsibilities to crowds that can influence a firm's ability to leverage previously unattainable resources to build competitive advantage i.e. wikipedia |
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developing teams |
team formation |
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developing teams spacio-temporal context - virtual teams |
virtual teams are teams that operate across space, time and organisational boundaries to complete a project use computer mediated communication technologies and collaborative software in order to communicate and share info |
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developing teams reflexivity and roles |
development isn't in stages = a journey -> reflexivity of ones roles, assumptions and behaviours team roles - role ambiguity, gender roles |
