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Team Process
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The term that reflects the different types of activities and interactions that occur within teams and contribute to their ultimate end goals
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Process Gain
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Getting more from the team than you would expect according to the capabilities of its individual members
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Process loss
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Getting less from the team than you would expect based on the capabilities of it individual members
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Coordination Loss
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Consumes time and energy that could otherwise be devoted to task activity
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Production Blocking
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Occurs when members have to wait on one another before they can do their part of the team task
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Motivational Loss
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The loss in team productivity that occurs when team members do not work as hard as they could
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Social Loafing
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Happens when member exerts less effort when working on team tasks than they would if they worked alone on those same tasks
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Taskwork Processes
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Are the activities of team members that relate directly to the accomplishment of team tasks
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When teams engage in Creative Behavior,
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Their activities are focused on generating novel and useful ideas and solutions
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Brainstorming
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Involves a face-to-face meeting of team members in which each offers as many ideas as possible about some focal problem or issue
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Nominal Group Technique
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Is similar to traditional brainstorming session, but it makes ppl write down ideas on their own, thereby decreasing social loafing and production blocking
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Decision Making
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How people use information and intuition to make specific decisions.
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Decision Informity
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Reflects whether members possess adequate information about their own task responsibilities
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Staff Validity
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Refers to the degree to which members make good recommendations to the leader
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Hierarchical Sensitivity
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Reflects the degree to which the leader effectively weighs the recommendations of the members
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