A group that pursues performance goals through interdependent interaction.
Team
team a set of unique personal experiences, interests, skills, abilities, and motivations, and those personal qualities will influence how they act as team members.
Team Composition
The process by which members of the team combine their knowledge, skills, abilities, and other resources, through a coordinated series of actions, to produce an outcome.
Teamwork
A theoretical analysis of teams that identifies the key factors that distinguish effective (“real”) teams from other collective enterprises, including a compelling direction, an enabling structure, a supportive context, and effective leadership
Real Teams Model
The intuitive appeal of teams as effective means of improving performance in business and organizational settings, despite the lack of definitive evidence supporting their utility.
Romance of teams
Hypothetical divisions that separate the members of a heterogeneous group into smaller, more homogeneous subgroups.
Faultlines
review panels, steering committees, investigatory teams, and some judiciary boards are
Advisory teams
Information to be remembered is distributed to various members of the group who can then be relied upon to provide that information when it is needed.
Transactive Memory Systems
A group role that involves establishing relationships with individuals, groups, or organizations beyond one’s group.
Boundary Spanners
A theory of trust in groups and organizational settings that assumes people’s trust in others is based on perceptions of ability, benevolence, and integrity.
Organizational Trust Model