Leading Teams

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A team is a unit of two or more people who interact and coordinate their work to accomplish a common goal to which they are committed and hold themselves mutually accountable.

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Putting together a team and building teamwork are the same thing.

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When tasks are highly interdependent, a team can be the best approach to ensuring the level of coordination, information sharing, and exchange of materials necessary for successful task accomplishment.

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Teams can be composed of members that do not have interaction with each other.

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Social facilitation refers to the tendency for the presence of others to enhance one's performance.

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A functional team is composed of employees from about the same hierarchical level, but from different areas of expertise.

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Special-purpose teams are created by the organization as part of the formal organization structure.

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A task force is a group of employees from different departments formed to deal with a specific activity and existing only until the task is completed.

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A special-purpose team is sometimes called a problem-solving team.

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A free rider refers to a team member who attains benefits from team membership but does not actively participate in and contribute to the team's work.

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A common dysfunction of teams is to be results oriented.

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Work team effectiveness is based on two outcomes-productive output and marketplace acceptance.

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Self-managed teams typically consist of 5 to 20 multiskilled workers who rotate jobs to produce an entire product or service or at least one complete aspect or portion of a product or service.

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Capacity is a team's ability to meet personal needs of its members and hence maintain their membership and commitment.

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Productive output pertains to the team's ability to meet the personal needs of its members.

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Self-managed teams are related to the trend toward the bossless organization because the teams themselves, rather than managers or supervisors, take responsibility for their work, make decisions, monitor their own performance, and alter their work behavior as needed to solve problems, meet goals, and adapt to changing conditions.

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A multidomestic team is a cross-border team made up of members of different nationalities whose activities span multiple countries.

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A self-managed team eliminates barriers among departments, enabling excellent coordination to produce a product or service.

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One of the primary advantages of virtual teams is the ability to assemble the most talented group of people to complete a complex project, solve a particular problem, or exploit a specific strategic opportunity.

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Virtual teams present unique challenges, particularly in terms of building rapport and trust.

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