organizational behavior- team building and effectiveness

TRINITY INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES

Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75Affiliated Institution of G.G.S.IP.U, Delhi

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOURTopic: Team building and Effectiveness

By: Dr.Jaspreet Kaur

TRINITY INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIESSector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75

Groups and Teams

• Group– Group is Two or more persons interacting in a way

that each person influences each other.• Team– Team is a group of people committed to a

common purpose, and performance goals, for which the team members hold themselves mutually accountable.

Types of Work Teams


Group Dynamics

• Group Norms– Norms are the informal rules which the groups

adopt to regulate the group members’ behavior.• Group Cohesiveness– This is the degree of interpersonal attractiveness

within a group, reliant on factors like similarities, proximity, attraction among the individual group members, intergroup competition, group size, and agreement about goals.


What It Takes to Be a Team Player

• Personality– Individualism versus collectivism

• Interpersonal Skills– Conflict management skills– Collaborative problem solving skills– Communication skills

• Management Skills– Develop and establish goals– Control, monitor, provide feedback– Set work roles and assign tasks


Issue in Creating TeamPlayers

• Managers working with teams could come across the following difficulties:– The individual employees shows resistance to

team’s goals– Culture which is an individualistic factor could be

an issue.– Established organization places


Workforce Diversity and its effect on Teams

• Fresh perspectives on issues come from diversity and bring in creative or unique solutions

• The issue of working could make it difficult to unify a diverse team and reach a consensus

• The added-value of diverse teams enhances the team cohesiveness .

Characteristics of High-performing Work Teams


Pre-requisites of Effective Teams

– Share information in teams– Develop trust among members– Learning to give up authority– Delegating tasks to sub-ordinates– Marking the team’s external boundary– Facilitating the team process


Stages of Team Development


The Leader’s Role in Creating a Self-Managing Team

• Forming– In this stage the teams members begin working on their

responsibilities.– Training is the main task.

• Storming– The questions on who will be leading the team and the

structure will be formulated.– The leader makes sure team members learn and

exercise leadership skills.


The Leader’s Role in Creating a Self-Managing Team (cont’d)

• Norming– Team members reach a consensus on purpose,

structure, and leadership and start performing.– The leader stresses on the need for team co-operation

and supervise its own members.• Performing– This is a period of productivity, achievement, and pride.

The team members work together to achieve the goal.• Adjourning

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