Group dynamics for teams. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Daniel Levi, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
• Other Names: Levi, Daniel
• Contents: Introduction; PART I: CHARACTERISTICS OF TEAMS; CHAPTER 1. Understanding Teams; Defining Groups and Teams; Purposes and Types of Teams; Why Organizations Use Teams; History of Teams and Group Dynamics; Leading Virtual Teams: Virtual Meetings and Virtual Collaboration—Selecting Technologies to Use for Your Team; Team Leader’s Challenge 1; Survey: Attitudes Toward Teamwork; Activity: Working in Teams; CHAPTER 2. Defining Team Success; Nature of Team Success; Conditions for Team Success; Characteristics of Successful Teams; Positive Psychology View of Team Success; Using Teams in the Workplace; Team Leader’s Challenge 2; Activity: Understanding Team Success; PART II: PROCESSES OF TEAMWORK; Chapter 3. Team Beginnings; Stages of Teamwork; Group Socialization; Team Goals; Team Norms; Application: Jump-Starting Project Teams; Leading Virtual Teams: Starting a Virtual Team; Team Leader’s Challenge 3; Activity: Observing Team Norms; Activity: Developing a Team Contract; CHAPTER 4. Understanding the Basic Team Processes; Motivation; Group Cohesion; Team Roles; Task and Social Behaviors; Team Adaptation and Learning; Leading Virtual Teams: Motivating Participation in Virtual Meetings; Team Leader’s Challenge 4; Activity: Observing Task and Social Behaviors; CHAPTER 5. Cooperation and Competition; Teamwork as a Mixed-Motive Situation; Why Are People in Teams Competitive?; Problems With Competition; Benefits of and Problems With Cooperation; Application: Encouraging Cooperation; Leading Virtual Teams: Building Trust and Social Relationships; Team Leader’s Challenge 5; Survey: Cooperative, Competitive, or Individualistic Orientation; Activity: Understanding Competitive Versus Cooperative Goals; CHAPTER 6. Communication Written by David Askay; Communication Process; Flow of a Team’s Communications; Emotional Intelligence; Facilitating Team Meetings; Communication Skills for Team Meetings; Leading Virtual Teams: Running Virtual Meetings to Ensure Everyone Is Following the Agenda and People Arrive at the Same Understanding; Team Leader’s Challenge 6; Survey: Team Emotional Intelligence; Activity: Observing Communication Patterns in a Team; PART III: ISSUES TEAMS FACE; CHAPTER 7. Managing Conflict; Conflict Is Normal; Sources of Conflict; Impact of Conflict; Conflict Resolution Approaches; Managing Team Conflicts; Leading Virtual Teams: Reducing Conflict and Developing Collaboration; Team Leader’s Challenge 7; Survey: Conflict Resolution Styles; Activity: Observing Conflict Resolution Styles; CHAPTER 8. Power and Social Influence; Definitions of Power and Social Influence; Types of Power; Power Dynamics; Empowerment; Application: Acting Assertively; Leading Virtual Teams: Ensuring Dissenting Voices Are Heard and Empowering the Team; Team Leader’s Challenge 8; Activity: Using Power Styles—Passive, Aggressive, and Assertive; CHAPTER 9. Decision Making; Value of Group Decision Making; Approaches to Group Decision Making; Decision-Making Problems; Decision-Making Techniques; Application: Consensus Decision Making; Leading Virtual Teams: Encouraging Agreement on a Decision; Team Leader’s Challenge 9; Activity: Making Consensus Decisions; Activity: Group Versus Individual Decision Making; CHAPTER 10. Leadership; Alternative Designs of Leadership for Teams; Approaches to Leadership; Situational Leadership Theory; Self-Managing Teams; Application: The Functional Approach to Leading Teams; Leading Virtual Teams: New Approaches to Leadership in Virtual Teams; Team Leader’s Challenge 10; Survey: Leadership Styles; Activity: Observing the Leader’s Behavior; CHAPTER 11. Problem Solving; Approaches to Problem Solving; Descriptive Approach: How Teams Solve Problems; Functional Approach: Advice on Improving Team Problem Solving; Prescriptive Approach: Rational Problem-Solving Model; Problem-Solving Teams; Application: Problem-Solving Techniques for Teams; Team Leader’s Challenge 11; Activity: Using Problem-Solving Techniques; CHAPTER 12. Creativity; Creativity and Its Characteristics; Individual Creativity; Group Creativity; Organizational Environment and Creativity; Application: Team Creativity Techniques; Leading Virtual Teams: Virtual Creativity; Team Leader’s Challenge 12; Activity: Comparing Different Creativity Techniques; CHAPTER 13. Diversity; The Nature of Diversity; Problems of Diversity; Causes of Diversity Problems; Effects of Diversity; Application: Creating a Context to Support Diversity; Team Leader’s Challenge 13; Survey: Attitudes Toward Diversity; Activity: Understanding Gender and Status Differences in a Team; PART IV: ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT OF TEAMS; CHAPTER 14. Team, Organizational, and International Culture; Team Culture; Defining Organizational Culture; Organizational Culture and Teamwork; Dimensions of International Culture; International Differences in Teamwork; Transnational Teams; Leading Virtual Teams: Dealing With Cultural Issues; Team Leader’s Challenge 14; Survey: Individualism–Collectivism; Activity: Evaluating a Team’s Culture and Cultural Context; Activity: Comparing United States and Japanese Teams; CHAPTER 15. Virtual Teamwork; Use of Communication Technologies; Communication Impacts; Team Impacts; Selecting the Right Technology; Challenge of Virtual Teams; Team Leader’s Challenge 15; Activity: Developing Netiquette for Virtual Teams; Activity: Experiencing Teamwork in a Simulated Virtual Team; CHAPTER 16. Evaluating and Rewarding Teams; Team Performance Evaluations; Reward Systems; Rewarding Individual Team Members; Team and Organizational Reward Programs; Relationship of Rewards to Types of Teams; Team Leader’s Challenge 16; Survey: Individual Versus Team Rewards; Activity: Evaluating and Rewarding a Project Team; Activity: Team Halo Effect; CHAPTER 17. Team Building and Team Training; What Is Team Building?; Does Your Team Need Team Building?; Types of Team-Building Programs; Team Training; Types of Training; Team Leader’s Challenge 17; Activity: Team Building; Activity: Appreciative Inquiry of Teamwork; Appendix: Guide to Student Team Projects; Starting the Team; Planning and Developing the Project; Monitoring the Project and Maintaining Teamwork; Performing Team Writing; Wrapping Up and Completing the Project; References; Index;
• Edition: 5th edition
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (464 pages)
• Subjects: 658.4/022; Teams in the workplace; Teams in the workplace
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483378367; 1483378365
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