Accountability for a shared outcome and member interdependence.
What are some key differences between groups and teams?
100
Organizational context, team design, and team culture.
What are the components of team context?
100
The belief of team members that the team is able to perform its tasks successfully.
What is collective efficacy?
100
How senders tailor messages for specific recipients.
What is message tuning?
100
The type of conflict often featured in reality TV.
What is relationship conflict?
200
To create a great team, select great individual performers.
What is the biggest fallacy in team dynamics?
200
Teams that are generally more creative than fast.
What are heterogeneous teams?
200
Familiarity, similarity, and incentives.
What are ways in which trust builds among team members?
200
In a six-person team, three people do over 70% of the talking.
What is an example of the uneven communication problem (or communication imbalance)?
200
Conflict engagement.
What is the distribution of conflict participation within the team?
300
Coordination difficulty and social loafing both increase.
What is the effect of increasing team size?
300
The punctuated equilibrium effect.
What is the tendency for teams working under deadlines to wait until the midpoint to make important decisions and leap forward in work progress?
300
Fear of making a mistake; rampant blame.
What are characteristics of teams with low psychological safety?
300
The desire to understand information completely and deeply.
What is epistemic motivation?
300
The tendency for team members to lower their creative output to match the least productive team member.
What is downward norm setting?
400
The highest form of interdependence
What is reciprocal?
400
The first 15 minutes of team interaction.
What is the period within which team norms and interaction patterns begin to solidify?
400
Forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning.
What is the stage model of team development that has little empirical support?
400
A hidden profile.
What is an answer or conclusion apparent only after team members have fully shared all their information?
400
Perceptual conflict.
What is how each team member perceives the level of conflict in a team?
500
A hypothetical dividing line in teams that is not associated with the current task or situation at hand.
What is a dormant faultline?
500
Little change in team behaviour after the switch to a cooperative reward structure.
What happens when you switch a competitive team's reward structure to cooperative?
500
Build team identity, allow team members to be physically close to each other, ask team members to focus on their similarities, put a positive spin on teams' performance, and challenge the teams.
What are all the ways to build team cohesion?
500
The belief that "everyone else wants it."
What is pluralistic ignorance?
500
Developmental feedback, interactional justice, and being trustworthy.
What is how supervisors create the situation for both positive and negative mood to increase creativity?