Chapter 8

This set of flashcards covers essential vocabulary and concepts related to group dynamics, including advantages and challenges of teamwork, task interdependence, team cohesion, team norms, and more.

Team Advantages

Benefits of teams include better decision making, improved products/services, better information sharing, and increased employee motivation.

Process Losses

Resources needed for team maintenance that can detract from a team's overall effectiveness.

Brooks’ Law

Adding more people to a late project only makes it later.

Social Loafing

A tendency for team members to exert less effort when working in a group than when working alone.

Task Interdependence

The extent to which team members must share materials, information, or expertise to perform their jobs.

Diversity in Team Composition

Having team members with varied knowledge, skills, perspectives, and values, which offers advantages as well as challenges.

Team Norms

Informal rules and shared expectations established by a team to regulate members' behaviors.

Team Cohesion

The degree of attraction and motivation individuals feel towards a team.

Stages of Team Development

The phases teams go through: Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning.

Virtual Teams

Teams whose members operate across space, time, and organizational boundaries, often linked through technology.