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 * Team forming, Team building, Team management, Team/Project assesment (''Teaching Teamwork in Information Systems'' by Connie E. Wells, from ''Challenges of Information Technology Education in the 21st Century'' ISBN:1930708343)

== Team characteristics ==

 * Katzenbach and Smith, 1993
  * Small size (2-25, 3-5)
  * Complementary skills
  * Commitment to a common purpose
  * Have performance goals and approach
  * Hold themselves mutually accountable
 * Skopec & Smith, 1997
  * Identity
  * Mission
  * Great expectations
  * Commonly accepted procedures
  * Feedback
  * Team-building
 * Hoffer, et al., 1996
  * Selection of team members
  * Having a common purpose (goal) and a commitment to the goal
  * Mutual trust among competent team members
  * Interdependence among team members
  * Good communication among members
  * Sense of empowerment and proper support from management
  * Team-building skills (from training)
  * Socializing and celebration

Team formation

  • Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjourning (Tuckman and Jensen, 1977)
  • Team forming, Team building, Team management, Team/Project assesment (Teaching Teamwork in Information Systems by Connie E. Wells, from Challenges of Information Technology Education in the 21st Century 1930708343)

Team characteristics

  • Katzenbach and Smith, 1993
    • Small size (2-25, 3-5)
    • Complementary skills
    • Commitment to a common purpose
    • Have performance goals and approach
    • Hold themselves mutually accountable
  • Skopec & Smith, 1997

    • Identity
    • Mission
    • Great expectations
    • Commonly accepted procedures
    • Feedback
    • Team-building
  • Hoffer, et al., 1996
    • Selection of team members
    • Having a common purpose (goal) and a commitment to the goal
    • Mutual trust among competent team members
    • Interdependence among team members
    • Good communication among members
    • Sense of empowerment and proper support from management
    • Team-building skills (from training)
    • Socializing and celebration

Essential behaviors

  • Cooperation

  • Communication

Counterproductive behaviors

  • Social Loafing (Latane, Williams, & Harkins, 1979) (Karau & Williams, 1993) (Hackman, 1986) The reduction of individual contributions within a group.

  • Free Riders (Sweeney, 1973) don't perform in a group, believing their individual effort isn't important.

  • Sucker Effect (Johnson & Johnson, 1997) Good performers slack off to avoid others taking advantage of them.

  • Competition, individual goals become more important than common goal. Mixed motives.

  • Over-cooperation, leading to overconformity and poor decision making.

References

  • Group Dynamics for Teams by Daniel Levi (0761922547)

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