Hackman
Mathieu
Fluid and temporary teams
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Blast from the past
100

What are the 3 components of the IPO framework?

Input – Process – Output

100

What is the core change (critique) Mathieu proposed to the IPO/IMO model?

  • Dynamism
  • Conceived of the components as overlapping and coevolving / dynamic ven diagram
100

"A bounded set of roles with collective responsibility for the whole task" ... “a stable structure that helps fluid personnel act like a team”

Team scaffold

100

"Burstiness" of emails demonstrates this team trait

coordinated attention (will also accept "joint attention")

100

"Fit" is a key term from this theory.

Contingency theory

200

What is the moderator in Hackman's normative model?

Group synergy

200

Name two structural features in Mathieu's ven diagram. (Hint: Ingrid / the group mentioned one repeatedly last week.)

  • Structural contingencies
  • Task scope and complexity
  • Interdependence
  • Team virtuality / technology
200

Definition: Team members view problems as shared and solutions as requiring coproduction.

joint problem solving orientation

200

What type of intelligence allows teams to convert resources to outcomes?

(latent) collective intelligence

200

This theory states that the shape of a given person’s network can be closed (composed of individuals who are all connected to one another) or can have “holes,” (consisting of connections with “alters” who are not themselves connected); the theory suggests those who have more holes in their networks receive more nonredundant information.

Burt’s structural holes theory of social capital

300

What was Steiner's 1972 formula of group productivity?

productivity = potential productivity - group process losses

300

Collective awareness of who knows what – decreases when a team member is lost

Transactive memory system (TMS)

300

Team familiarity is a commonly studied variable on teams. What was the second, novel variable that Kim (2022) added in their study of ED teams?

Partner exposure

300

Name one component of the RCO model that Amano and colleagues observed in their study of EHR's effects on providers.

  • team communication
  • --rich vs lean
  • --social vs task
  • team function
  • --trust
  • --mutual respect
  • --mindfulness
  • --heedful interrelating
  • team member well-being
  • --heedful interrelation
  • Not in data, 7th principle
  • --diversity of mental models
300

In resource dependency theory, when two organizations depend on each other, this term captures the *difference* in *how much* each organization depends on the other

power imbalance

400

Name one question a manager should ask during the pre-work phase of forming a team.

  • What is the task?
  • What are the critical task demands?
  • Will the group be manager-led, self-managing, or self-designing?
  • Overall, how advantageous is it to assign the work to team? How feasible is it?
400

A team's collective belief about their ability to be successful.

Team potency

400

According to Kim (2022), doctors are in decision-initiating roles and nurses are in what kind of roles?

decision-executing roles

400

What characteristic of the EHR does this quotation represent? 

“… there’s a lot of burden to like use the EMR both as like the portal of communication… I think there’s also like this underlying, also sort of like a tone of like litigation… there’s a lot of stress around the timing of the documentation, how you word the documentation, and I think that’s also like something that’s a player in all of this…. It’s very stressful.” (physician 12; 2018)

Medical-legal characteristics

"Medical-legal characteristics of EHR can harm provider trust"

400

a leadership approach that causes change in individuals and social systems; it helps people increase their motivation

transformational leadership

500

According to Hackman, what in the organizational context can foster hard work?

Reward system that reinforces achievement

500

What are the three types of diversity as described by Mathieu?

  • Surface level diversity – demographics
  • Deep level diversity – personality, attitudes, collectivism, emotional intelligence, preference for teamwork
  • Functional diversity (includes (a) members from different functional categories and (b) intrapersonal functional diversity - each person has many experiences)
500

Name two mechanisms linking team scaffolds and group-level coordination


  • Accountability – collective responsibility for queue helps establish this
  • Overlapping representations of work – moving same patients through
  • Belonging – social power of belonging, like being on a pickup basketball team together, even if temporary
  • Context specific: Competition (between pods)
  • Context specific: Proximity
500

refers to the extent to which a test / survey measure is not related to other tests / survey measures that evaluate different constructs

discriminant validity

500

What concept / key word from institutional theory has these two properties?

•rationalized and impersonal prescriptions that identify various social purposes as technical ones and specify in a rulelike way the appropriate means to pursue these technical purposes

•highly institutionalized and thus in some measure beyond the discretion of any individual participant or organization

myths

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