Reflexivity
________: team characteristic of reflecting on and adjusting the master plan when necessary.
Context
________: what factors determine whether teams are successful.
good team player
Rewarding: providing incentives to be a(n) ________.
Work group
Group that interacts primarily to share information and make decisions to help each group member fulfill his/her responsibilities
Work teams
Group whose individual efforts result in performance that is greater than the sum of the individual inputs
Problem-solving teams
Groups of 5 to 12 employees from the same department who meet for a few hours each week to discuss ways of improving quality, efficiency and the work environment
Self-managed teams
Groups of 10 to 15 people who take on responsibilities of their former supervisors
Cross-functional teams
Employees from about the same hierarchical level, but from different work areas, who come together to accomplish a task
Virtual teams
Teams that use computer technology to tie together physically dispersed members in order to achieve a common goal
Multi-team systems
Collection of two or more interdependent teams that share a superordinate goal; a team of teams
Organizational demography
Degree to which team members of a work unit share a common demographic attitude (sex, age), educational background or length of service in an organization and the impact of this attribute on turnover
Reflexivity
Team characteristic of reflecting on and adjusting the master plan when necessary
Mental models
Organized mental representations of the key elements within a team's environment that team members share