Leading Team

Team is when work of the members are related and members interact regularly. Group is when work of members are related but they don't interact regularly.

Team shares common purpose that requires them to depend on each other

In a team, people sublimate their individual needs, desires and egos.

The 5 elements include:

The most difficult would be diversity of skills and Unambiguous roles.

Differences in race, gender, ethnicity and cultural background may be the key to achieve diverse skills. However, it may lead to conflicting views. The differenes may inhibit collaboration. Thus, members may be less likely to share knowledge or exhibit other collaborative behaviors

Typically use collaborating style

However,in instances like Group project conflict when deadlines are near, this style may not the best. This style requires negotiation to enable both parties to win. Negotiations may take time. Nevertheless, we may not have much time when deadlines are near. Thus, Dominating style may be more appropriate because quick and decisive action can be achieved to meet deadlines.

Negotiation: Involve in give and take discussions and consider various alternatives to reach a joint decision that is acceptable to both parties

Integrative Negotiation: cooperative approach in which parties attempt to reach a win-win solution

Distributive Negotiation: Adversarial negotiation in which parties compete to win the most resources and give up as little as possible

3 Main dilemmas: Give up Independence, Put up with free riders, Teams are sometimes dysfunctional

Intensified the dilemma

More difficult to get to know the members virtually

Fear that other members will have different work ethics

Varying individual goals

Members are diverse

Big team may have more diverse and highly educated members

Smaller teams can achieve high levels of cooperation better than big teams. Benefits of small teams include:

More engaged employees

Larger teams make it harder to extract the individual contributions and performance of each person. Thus, increasing social loafing

Individuals may feel as though the amount of support they get from others decreases as the size of the team increases

Smaller teams are more entrepreneurial: Faster decision making and members can find faster and better way to solve the problem

Easier to round members all up and build consensus

It is much easier to get to know one another and become comfortable in sharing ideas.

Smaller teams can become more specialised. It may be less faster for larger team to reach this level

In large teams, a lot of them may not be actively contributing. Thus, wasting your human resources.

Small teams foster monitoring