Groups and Teams
Groups and teams
Discuss the differences between groups and teams.
How can groups and teams enhance organisational performance?
Discuss the advantaged of developing a synergy within a group/team
What other characteristics may be present within a group and its members?
Answers:
Group means two or more people who interact with each other to accomplish certain goals or meet certain needs. Team means a group whose members work intensely with each other to achieve a specific, common goal or objective. As these definitions imply, all teams are groups, but not all groups are teams. (Definitions)
The two characteristics that distinguish teams from work together and the presence of a specific overriding team goal or object. More exactly, the different between groups and teams is that a work group shares information to help each member perform within their own level of responsibility or 1+1=2, but a Work Team co-ordinates effort to create positive synergy or 1+1=3. (Discuss differences)
In order to enhance organisational performance, members of groups, and particularly teams, are often better motivated and satisfied than individuals. Team members are more motivated and satisfied than if they were working alone. Team members can see the effect of their contribution to achieving team and organizational goals. Teams provide needed social interaction and help employees cope with work-related stressors. (Explain G/T enhance performance)
One of the main advantages of using groups/teams are the opportunity to obtain a type of synergy, which means people working in a group can produce more or higher-quality outputs than would have been produced if each person had worked separately and all their individual efforts were later combined. (Definition of synergy)
The advantage of developing a synergy within a group can be: (1) ability of group members to bounce ideas off one another, (2) to correct one another’s mistakes, (3) to bring a diverse
Discuss the differences between groups and teams.
How can groups and teams enhance organisational performance?
Discuss the advantaged of developing a synergy within a group/team
What other characteristics may be present within a group and its members?
Answers:
Group means two or more people who interact with each other to accomplish certain goals or meet certain needs. Team means a group whose members work intensely with each other to achieve a specific, common goal or objective. As these definitions imply, all teams are groups, but not all groups are teams. (Definitions)
The two characteristics that distinguish teams from work together and the presence of a specific overriding team goal or object. More exactly, the different between groups and teams is that a work group shares information to help each member perform within their own level of responsibility or 1+1=2, but a Work Team co-ordinates effort to create positive synergy or 1+1=3. (Discuss differences)
In order to enhance organisational performance, members of groups, and particularly teams, are often better motivated and satisfied than individuals. Team members are more motivated and satisfied than if they were working alone. Team members can see the effect of their contribution to achieving team and organizational goals. Teams provide needed social interaction and help employees cope with work-related stressors. (Explain G/T enhance performance)
One of the main advantages of using groups/teams are the opportunity to obtain a type of synergy, which means people working in a group can produce more or higher-quality outputs than would have been produced if each person had worked separately and all their individual efforts were later combined. (Definition of synergy)
The advantage of developing a synergy within a group can be: (1) ability of group members to bounce ideas off one another, (2) to correct one another’s mistakes, (3) to bring a diverse