1. McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2013 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Teams: Characteristics and Diversity Chapter 11

2. 11-2

3. 11-3 Team Characteristics A team consists of two or more people who work interdependently over some time period to accomplish common goals related to some task-oriented purpose. ๏ A special type of “group.” ๏ The interactions among members within teams revolve around a deeper dependence on one another than the interactions within groups. ๏ The interactions within teams occur with a specific task- related purpose in mind.

4. 11-4 Types of Teams

5. 11-5 Variations within Team Types Virtual teams are teams in which the members are geographically dispersed, and interdependent activity occurs through electronic communications—primarily e- mail, instant messaging, and Web conferencing Teams also vary in how developmentally mature they are

6. 11-6 Team Interdependence Task interdependence refers the degree to which team members interact with and rely on other team members for the information, materials, and resources needed to accomplish work for the team

7. 11-7 Task Interdep- endence

8. 11-8 Team Interdependence Goal interdependence exists when team members have a shared vision of the team’s goal and align their individual goals with that vision as a result

9. 11-9 Team Interdependence Outcome interdependence exists when team members share in the rewards that the team earns

10. 11-10 Team Composition

11. 11-11 Member Roles

12. 11-12 Member Ability Cognitive and physical abilities needed in a team depend on the nature of the team’s task ๏ Disjunctive tasks ๏ Conjunctive tasks ๏ Additive tasks

13. 11-13 Team Diversity Degree to which members are different from one another in terms of any attribute that might be used by someone as a basis of categorizing people. ๏ Value in diversity problem-solving approach ๏ Similarity-attraction approach ๏ Surface-level diversity ๏ Deep-level diversity

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15. 11-15 How Important Are Team Characteristics?