Team Dynamics

Present By:Madhow Sailesh Hasley,Hau Teen yee Fabrice

What is a team?What makes a team effective?What makes a team defective?Why teams?Stages of team/group development

Team Dynamics

What are Team Dynamics ?

Relationships between members of a group that are assigned connected tasks within a company.

Group of two or more People.

Dynamics are affected by roles and responsibilities and have a direct result on productivity.

Types of Team

1. Problem Solving Teams:

• Temporary teams inspect a problem

2. Cross Functional teams:

• Formed unexpectedly, using rented resources.• To develop products or solving problems.

How Team Dynamics can be improve .

Team Work. Understand each other. Show Respect to each other.

Team Dynamics- How They Affect Performance

Team dynamics are a very important part of working life

The profitability of an organization.

Whether people enjoy their work.

Staff retention rates. Team and individual

performance. Company reputation.

Why informal Teams Exist

• Emotional Support

• Accomplish a Goal

• Social interaction

T-ogether

E-ducated

A-chieve

M-ore

Aims

Better communication Skills.

Pulling together resources to achieve set goal.

Support and interdependence.

Increase bond of trust.

Tolerance of other’s views.

Team Design Elements

• Task Characteristics Easy to implement Task Interdependence Share common outcomes

• Team Size Smaller Teams are better But Large are enough to accomplish task

• Team Composition Members Motivated Team diversity

Stages of Team DevelopmentForming

Storming

NormingPerforming

Adjourning

Team Cohesivene

ss

External Challeng

es

Team Size

Member interacti

on

Team success

Member similarit

y

Difficult Entry

Causes of Team Cohesiveness

Team Cohesiveness Outcomes

Want to remain membersWilling to share informationStrong interpersonal bonds Want to support each otherResolve conflict effectivelyMore satisfied and experience less stress

Cohesiveness and Performance

High productivity

Moderate productivity

Lowproductivity

Moderate to low

productivity

High

High

Low

Low

The Trouble With Teams

• Individuals better/faster on some tasks• Process losses — cost of developing and maintaining teams• Companies don’t support best work environment for team dynamics• Social loafing

Conditions for Social Loafing

Low task interdependence Individual output not visibleRoutine, uninteresting tasksLow task significanceLow collectivist values

Type of Team Building

• Role definition• Interpersonal process• Goal setting• Problem solving