First, awareness increases the potential for individual and team freedom and maturity. Second, norms can positively or negatively influence the effectiveness of individuals, teams, and organizations. For example, team norms of improving quality are likely to reinforce an organization’s formal quality standards. Or, team norms toward absenteeism may affect the level of absence behavior by members.
Five potential dysfunctions for teams.
1. Groupthink is an agreement-at-any-cost mentality that results in ineffective group decision making and poor decisions. The characteristics of groupthink include an illusion of invulnerability, direct pressure, self-censorship, and a shared illusion of unanimity.
2. Free riding is another dysfunction. A free rider refers to a team member who obtains benefits from membership but does not bear a proportional share of the responsibility for generating the benefit.
3. The sucker effect may occur when team members fear that one or more other members may free ride. The sucker effect refers to one or more individuals in the team deciding to withhold effort in the belief that others (the free riders) are planning to withhold effort.
4. The absence of trust among team members can severely hamper its effectiveness.
5. Avoidance of accountability for results may occur when teams do not commit to a clear set of goals and plan of action and individuals hesitate to confront their peers on counterproductive actions and behaviors.
Five potential dysfunctions for teams.
1. Groupthink is an agreement-at-any-cost mentality that results in ineffective group decision making and poor decisions. The characteristics of groupthink include an illusion of invulnerability, direct pressure, self-censorship, and a shared illusion of unanimity.
2. Free riding is another dysfunction. A free rider refers to a team member who obtains benefits from membership but does not bear a proportional share of the responsibility for generating the benefit.
3. The sucker effect may occur when team members fear that one or more other members may free ride. The sucker effect refers to one or more individuals in the team deciding to withhold effort in the belief that others (the free riders) are planning to withhold effort.
4. The absence of trust among team members can severely hamper its effectiveness.
5. Avoidance of accountability for results may occur when teams do not commit to a clear set of goals and plan of action and individuals hesitate to confront their peers on counterproductive actions and behaviors.
Five potential dysfunctions for teams
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