Enhancing Team Dynamics and Decision-Making in IT Groups
This guide explores the dynamics of teamwork within the Department of IT-CAPE, highlighting the stages of team development: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. It identifies various team roles, including the chair, plant, and shaper, and delves into group performance and decision-making types. We discuss leadership styles, both position and personal powers, as well as organizational structures. Additionally, the document addresses stress factors, health and safety policies, and the importance of clear job descriptions in creating a safe working environment.
Enhancing Team Dynamics and Decision-Making in IT Groups
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Working in groups Dept of IT-CAPE
Becoming a team • Forming • Storming • Norming • Performing • Adjourning Dept of IT-CAPE
Different types of people • The chair • The plant • The monitor evaluator • The shaper • The team worker • The resource investigator • The complete-finisher • The company worker Dept of IT-CAPE
Group performance • Categories • Additive tasks • Compensatory tasks • Disjunctive tasks • Conjunctive tasks Dept of IT-CAPE
Decision making • Structured • Unstructured • Some mental obstacles in good decision making • Faculty heuristics • Escalation of commitment • Information overload • Group decision making • Obstacles • Measure to reduce disadvantages in group decision making Dept of IT-CAPE
Leadership • Position power • Coercive power • Connection power • Legitimate power • Reward power • Personal power • Expert power • Information power • Referent power Dept of IT-CAPE
Leadership styles • Directive autocrat • Permissive autocrat • Directive democrat • Permissive democrat Dept of IT-CAPE
Organizational structures • Formal Vs. Informal structures • Hierarchical approach • Staff versus line • Departmentalization • Egoless programming • Chief programmer teams Dept of IT-CAPE
Stress • Role ambiguity • Role conflict Dept of IT-CAPE
Health and safety • Top-management-safety policy • Delegation of authorities regarding safety must be clear • Job descriptions reg-safety • Deployment of safety officer • Consultation on safety • Adequate budgeting for safety costs Dept of IT-CAPE
