Teams

-       Two or more in social interaction

-       At least 1 common goal

-       Perform organizationally relevant task  in organizational system/boundaries

-       Interdependencies (workflow goals outcome)

Different roles/responsibliitys

-       Componemt (meaningfully divisible ?Y/N)

-       Focus (Quantity vs Quality)

-       Interdependence ( how are performances combined to group potential)

o   -> Additive, compensatory, disjunctive, conjunctive discretionary tasks

-       Define appropriate and inappropriate behavior -> important for group activity

o   Increase predictablility

o   Can facilitate(more often) and restrict output

o   Compel to innovation and OCB but also CWB

§  Overlapping coevolving facets  generate effectiveness

o   Structutal Features (Virtuality, Interdependencies, tec)

§  Demonstrability (is there a correct answer?)  increases effectiveness

o   Mediating mechanism/

o   Inputs/ Compositional features

§  Team conflict

·       Level: interindividual (two ppl) vs Intragroup(fraction and rest of group)

·       Source

·       Conflict outcome

o   Positive  creative, improved decisions

o   Negative  disrupts activities relationships and group cohesiveness

§  Decision making

·       Autocratic (Teamleader makes decision alone  simple and fast

·       Democratic ( majority rule)

§  Team diversity

·       Social Identity/categorization approach  diversity harms info processing and effectiveness as soon as perceived

·       Information processing approach  diversity prevents premature consensus and increases info processing

·       Combine both = Categorization Elaboration Model

o   Diversity increases information elaboration and therefore performance

§  This is moderated by social categorization (hinges on Task and Team members)

o   Problems with theoretical conceptualizations

§  This interplay is rarely examined

§  dynamic teams are observed/conceptualized in very static design misalignment of theory and primary study design

o   Increases (currently employees have 11-15 per work week)

o   Managers spend up to 80% of their time in meetings

o   Problem solving/Idea generation

o   Consensus and decision-making

§  Shaping organizational strategy

o   Raking leadership influence

o   In remote work  managing social relations

o   Ideas are generated by cycle of idea focused statements (idea, idea description, idea refinement) and positive socio emotional statemants (esp. active listening)

o   Belonging to more than one team/ fluid teammembership

§  Divided attention

o   Agile teams

Virtual teams/hybrid teams