Team Composition and Task Interdependence
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What are the three team dimensions suggested in the article of "beyond team types and taxonomies?
Authority differentiation
Temporal stability
What could be a fourth dimension, when thinking about the different team dimensions from "beyond team types and taxonomies"?
What dimension in "beyond team types and taxonomies" is described as: can everybody on the team perform all the tasks or are the team members specialized in some shape or form?
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What dimension in "beyond team types and taxonomies" is described as: who gets to make decisions when disagreements arise or how are decisions made?
What dimension in "beyond team types and taxonomies" is described as: how long has the team been working together?
What is use of using dimensions, instead of categorical team types in "beyond team types and taxonomies"?
(rigid) New team types emerge, other wither -> dimensions deals with change
Being able to clearly describe a team allow us to understand strengths and weaknesses, as well as adopt to the team in case problems emerge
Can you give an example of a low end and high end skill differentiation team in "beyond team types and taxonomies"?
High end: Surgical team
Can you give an example of a low end and high end authority differentiation team in "beyond team types and taxonomies"?
High end: traditional work teams, judge-advisor team
Can you give an example of a low end and high end temporal stability team in "beyond team types and taxonomies"?
High end: long-term project teams
What problems could arise in high skill differentiation teams in "beyond team types and taxonomies"?
What problems could arise in high authority skill differentiation teams in "beyond team types and taxonomies"?
What problems could arise in high temporal stability teams in "beyond team types and taxonomies"?
What are the ABC's of team work in "Bell et al, 2018 - team compositions"?
Behavioral states
Cognitive states
In the ABC's of team work in "Bell et al, 2018 - team compositions", what is described as: team members' feelings and attitudes towards the team and its tasks?
In the ABC's of team work in "Bell et al, 2018 - team compositions", what is described as: team members' interdependent behaviors that translate inputs?
In the ABC's of team work in "Bell et al, 2018 - team compositions", what is described as: team members' structure of knowledge organization, collective perception, and information acquisition?
In the ABC's of team work in "Bell et al, 2018 - team compositions", what is described as: team cohesion, trust, emotion and mood, efficacy, and conflict?
In the ABC's of team work in "Bell et al, 2018 - team compositions", what is described as: capabilities, materials, resources, products?
In the ABC's of team work in "Bell et al, 2018 - team compositions", what is described as: team learning, shared mental models?
What are the four foundational concepts of team composition?
1. Types of team members attributes
- Surface-level attributes (biodemographic diversity)
- Deep-level attributes (personality traits, abilities)
2. Level of operationalization
- Compositional: equal weights for all team members
- Compilational: allows for different weigths across team members
3. Context
- Salience
- Relevance
- Desirability
4. Temporal considerations
- multiple team members
- team composition van change over time
To what refers: the extend to which employees depend on other members of their group to carry out work effectively in "task interdependence"?
What is meant with OCB in "task interdependence"?
True or false: in tasks high on task interdependence, helping (OCB) is positively associated with group performance? in "task interdependence"
True or false: in tasks low on task interdependence, high and low levels of helping were associated with high levels of group performance? in "task interdependence"
Why is helping behavior associated with low levels of group performance in tasks low on task interdependence in tasks low on task interdependence in "task interdependence"?
Helping may not be benificial in tasks low on task interdependence, becuase it takes away members' feelings of control and motivation, it migth even be seen as an insult
Saavedra et al. (1993) proposes different types of task interdependence groups, what are the four different types?
Sequential (one-way workflow)
Reciprocal (two-way workflow)
Team (simultaneous multi-directional work flow)
Saavedra et al. (1993) proposes; pooled, sequential, reciprocal and team as four different interdependence group types, can you give examples of teams for each of the types?
Sequential (a airline getting passengers from A to B, assembly line)
Reciprocal (product development team, film production)
Team (social workers team, firefighter team)
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