terms from session 2 people in organisations

This describes a team that operates without an internal manager and is responsible for a complete area of work.

 

This describes teams in which the members are physically separated, using communications technologies to collaborate across space and time to accomplish their common task.

This is necessary for a team to work as one – members need to hold themselves collectivey responsible for the outcomes

These refer to what members between them bring to the team in terms of technical, functional or professional competencies relevant to the work.

These are the types of behaviour that people display relatively frequently when they are part of a team.

This type of team is deliberately created by management to perform specific tasks to help meet organisational goals.

This is the regularity in the way a unit or group is organised, such as the roles that are specified.

Katzenbach and Smith define this as a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.

This is the situation of being faced with something that needs great mentam or physical effort in order to be done successfully and therefore tests a person's ability

This means the basic systems and services that are needed to support and economy, for example, transport and communications systems and electricity and water supplies