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10 Developing High-Performance Teams McGraw-Hill/Irwin © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved Self-Directed Teams at Chrysler Chrysler CEO Tom La Sorda is pushing the automaker into an era of “smart manufacturing” which relies more on selfdirected work teams (SDWTs) This photo shows La Sorda meeting employees at the company’s plant in Saltillo, Mexico, which has already introduced SDWTs McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Slide 10-2 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved Self-Directed Teams Defined Formal groups that complete an entire piece of work requiring several interdependent tasks and have substantial autonomy over the execution of these tasks McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Slide 10-3 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved Self-Directed Work Team Attributes Complete an entire piece of work requiring interdependent tasks • Clusters team members together • Minimal interdependence with other teams Substantial autonomy over execution of the team’s tasks • Control most work inputs, flow, and outputs • Little or no supervision McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Slide 10-4 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved Sociotechnical Systems Elements • Responsible for entire work process – Make entire product, component, or provide service – fairly independent from other work units • Sufficient autonomy – freedom to divide up and coordinate work – empowers team members • Control key variances – team controls factors affecting work quality/quantity • Joint optimization – balancing social and technical systems McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Slide 10-5 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved SDWTs at Standard Motor Products Standard Motor Products successfully introduced selfdirected work teams (SDWTs) at its Kansas plant, but some supervisors had difficulty changing from a commandand-control to mentor/facilitator management style Courtesy of Standard Motor Products McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Slide 10-6 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved Challenges to SDWTs • Cross-cultural issues – Difficult in some cultures • Management resistance – Concerned about losing power, status, job security – Shift from command/control to mentor/facilitator • Employee and labor union resistance – Employees uncomfortable with new roles, skills – Union concerns more stress, lost work rules McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Slide 10-7 Courtesy of Standard Motor Products © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved PricewaterhouseCooper’s Virtual Teams Peter Nicolas (shown in photo) and many employees at PricewaterhouseCoopers spend much of their time working in virtual teams “Virtual teaming is the norm for us,” says Nicolas, a Learning Solutions manager at the accounting firm’s offices in New Jersey Courtesy of PricewaterhouseCoopers McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Slide 10-8 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved Virtual Teams Defined Teams whose members operate across space, time, and organizational boundaries and are linked through information technologies to achieve organizational tasks Courtesy of PricewaterhouseCoopers McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Slide 10-9 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved Why Virtual Teams? • Increasingly possible because of: – Information technologies – Knowledge-based work • Increasingly necessary because of: – Knowledge management – Globalization McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Slide 10-10 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved Team Constraints: Groupthink • Tendency in highly cohesive teams to value consensus at the price of decision quality • More common when the: – Team is highly cohesive – Team is isolated from outsiders – Team leader is opinionated – Team faces external threats – Team has recent failures – Team lacks clear guidance McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Slide 10-19 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved Team Constraints: Group Polarization • Tendency for teams to make more extreme decisions than individuals alone • Riskier options usually taken because of prospect theory effect fallacy dislike losing more than they like winning McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Slide 10-20 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved Group Polarization Process Team discussion processes High risk High risk Social support Persuasive arguments Individual opinions before meeting Shifting responsibility Low risk Low risk McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Individual opinions after meeting Slide 10-21 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved General Guidelines for Team Decisions • Team norms should encourage critical thinking • Sufficient team diversity • Ensure neither leader nor any member dominates • Maintain optimal team size • Introduce effective team structures McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Slide 10-22 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved NASA Encourages Constructive Conflict Courtesy of Johnson Space Center/NASA NASA replaced the assigned seating rectangular table at the Johnson Space Center with a C-shaped arrangement where people sit wherever they want (shown in photo) The table is intended to avoid hierarchy so NASA managers can have more constructive debate McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Slide 10-23 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved Constructive Conflict Courtesy of Johnson Space Center/NASA • Occurs when team members debate their different perceptions about an issue in a way that keeps the conflict focused on the task rather than people • Problem: constructive conflict easily slides into personal attacks McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Slide 10-24 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved Rules of Brainstorming Speak freely Don’t criticize Provide as many ideas as possible Build on others’ ideas McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Slide 10-25 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved Evaluating Brainstorming • Strengths – Produces more innovative ideas – Strengthens decision acceptance and team cohesiveness – Sharing positive emotions encourages creativity – Higher customer satisfaction if clients participate • Weaknesses – Production blocking still exists – Evaluation apprehension exists in many groups – Fewer ideas generated than when people work alone McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Slide 10-26 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved Electronic Brainstorming  Participants share ideas using software  Usually in the same room, but may be dispersed  Question posted, then participants submit their ideas or comments on computer  Comments/ideas appear anonymously on computer screens or at front of room McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Slide 10-27 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved Evaluating Electronic Brainstorming • Strengths – Less production blocking – Less evaluation apprehension – More creative synergy – More satisfaction with process • Weaknesses – Too structured – Technology-bound – Candid feedback is threatening – Not applicable to all decisions McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Slide 10-28 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved Nominal Group Technique Describe problem McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Individual Activity Team Activity Individual Activity Write down possible solutions Possible solutions described to others Vote on solutions presented Slide 10-29 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved Team Building • Any formal intervention directed toward improving the development and functioning of a work team • Accelerates team development • Applied to existing teams that have regressed in team development McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Slide 10-30 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved Types of Team Building • Role definition • Goal setting • Problem solving • Interpersonal process McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Slide 10-31 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved Making Team Building Effective Some team building activities are successful, but just as many fail because: • Team-building activities need to target specific team problems • Team building is a continuous process, not a oneshot inoculation • Team building needs to occur on-the-job, not just away from the workplace McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Slide 10-32 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved 10 Developing High-Performance Teams McGraw-Hill/Irwin © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc All rights reserved ... Defined Teams whose members operate across space, time, and organizational boundaries and are linked through information technologies to achieve organizational tasks Courtesy of PricewaterhouseCoopers... comprising the intention to accept vulnerability based upon positive expectations of the intent or behavior of another person McShane/Von Glinow OB4e Slide 10-13 © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies,... Trust • Some people are inherently more willing to trust others • Propensity to trust influenced by personality, values, and socialization experiences • Also varies with emotions at the moment

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  • Developing High-Performance Teams

  • Self-Directed Teams at Chrysler

  • Self-Directed Teams Defined

  • Self-Directed Work Team Attributes

  • Sociotechnical Systems Elements

  • SDWTs at Standard Motor Products

  • Challenges to SDWTs

  • PricewaterhouseCooper’s Virtual Teams

  • Virtual Teams Defined

  • Why Virtual Teams?

  • High-Performance Virtual Teams

  • High-Performance Virtual Teams (con’t)

  • Trust Defined

  • Three Levels of Trust

  • Three Levels of Trust (con’t)

  • Propensity to Trust

  • Swift Trust in Teams

  • Team Decision Making Constraints

  • Team Constraints: Groupthink

  • Team Constraints: Group Polarization

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