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    Team Definition: in 1990s: Maximizing Productivity: Synergy

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    The document discusses definitions of teams from the 1990s and now. It defines teams as collections of individuals who are interdependent, share outcomes, and see themselves as a social group. The document also discusses how maximizing productivity through synergy where a team does better than individuals. Synergy comes from information integration from diverse views and buy-in. The document outlines different decision rules for teams and ways to decrease process losses through establishing goals, rules, monitoring, and managing conflict.

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    Team Definition: in 1990s: Maximizing Productivity: Synergy

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    10-12-2020

    Team definition: In 1990s


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     Collection of individuals
     Interdependent in tasks
     Share responsibility for outcomes
     See themselves and are seen by others as intact
    social entity embedded in larger social system(s)
    TEAMS  Manage relationships across organizational
    boundaries

    Cohen, S. G., & Bailey, D. E. (1997). What makes teams work: Group effectiveness research
    from the shop floor to the executive suite. Journal of Management, 23(3), 239-290.

    Team definition: Now Maximizing productivity: Synergy


    3 4

     (a) Two or more individuals who


     (b) Socially interact (face-to-face or, increasingly,
    virtually)
     (c) Possess one or more common goals
     (d) Are brought together to perform organizationally
    relevant tasks;
     (e) Exhibit interdependencies with respect to workflow, Group synergy is when the team does better than any
    goals, and outcomes of the individuals on the team. This is the ideal all
     ( f ) Have different roles and responsibilities; groups hope to achieve.
     (g) Are together embedded in an encompassing
    organizational system, with boundaries and linkages to
    the broader system context and task environment.
    Mathieu, J. E., Gallagher, P. T., Domingo, M. A., & Klock, E. A. (2019). Embracing complexity:
    Reviewing the past decade of team effectiveness research. Annual Review of Organizational
    Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 6, 17-46.

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    Synergy: Where does this come from? Decision rules


    5

     Information integration from diverse views  Majority rule

     Buy-in, more motivational pull  Minority rule

     Voting
     De-biasing
     Consensus

     Qualified consensus as a decision rule

    Solutions to deal with process losses


    Decrease Process Losses
    7 8
    in groups
     Time spent before discussion: Goals, rules,  Contracts
    responsibilities  Build trust
     Decision rules  Shared activities
     Group monitoring  Self-disclosure
     Expert identification
     Appropriate use of conflict

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    Takeaways
    9

     Teams are more effective than individuals but you


    need to actively manage …diversity, conflict etc.

     Establishing agreed-upon expectations in teams will


    NOT eliminate problems but will help your team
    succeed.

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