TEAM DORMAR

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TEAM DORMAR
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The Software Development Team

• LEADER
• Carlos
• CREATIVE PRODUCTION
• Nicole Kiran
• Diane Kylie
• George Devon

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Selecting the Team

• Age
• Gender
• Creativity
• Team Size
• Experience
• Team Cohesiveness

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Creativity Team

• Creative individuals tend to be more intelligent,
  subject matter experience, persistence, and
  inventive thinking style.
• Nicole 49 years old. Above average intelligence
  and has worked at four other companies with a
  strong sense of self efficacy.
• Dianne 32 years old. strong sense of self
  efficacy comes up with creative ideas. Values
  individualism.
• George 50 years old. Innovative solutions,
  approaches problems from all sides, refrains from
  becoming trapped into a single state of mind.

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Creative Team

• Creativity is to encourage in light of the
  importance of the substantial impact on the
  organization this project. Challenging work
  pushes employees to draw on.

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Production Team

• Kiran 40 year old
• Kylie -
• Devon -

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Structure of the Group

• By dividing the tasks into creative and
  productive we can enhance overall output.

Leader Carlos
Creative Productive Nicole
Kiran Diane Kylie George Devon
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Team Leader

• Carlos was chosen because he has high belief in
  teams and values group harmony, which is very
  important considering that group cohesiveness is
  directly related to team success especially in
  the forming and norming part of the group
  dynamics. In this way Carlos will promote member
  interaction, however, we wanted someone ready to
  challenge decisions in order to promote overall
  group decisions.

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Communication

• Face to Face and E-mail

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Cohesiveness

• Small Team Size
• easier to agree on goals and coordinate work
  activities
• Lots of Member Interaction
• Interdependent Tasks
• Same Physical Location
• Open Office Space
• Difficult Entry due to a Highly Selective Process
  
• Team Success
• Challenged by Upper Management with Time
  Constraints
• Rewarded for Milestones
• Recognized for Progress
• Upward Spiral Effect

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Ways to Relieve Distress

• Job Enrichment
• Increase Participation
• Effective Appraisal Reward System
• On Site Exercise Facilities
• Health and Family Education
• Flextime
• On Site Child Care
• Vacations
• Family Leave
• Snack Bar
• Nap Time
• Paid Time Off
• Themes at Work

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Creativity

• Ways to foster creative team are by
• Cross Pollination
• Work is Meaningful to Employees
• Enhanced Job Characteristics
• Varied Tasks
• Feedback Loop to Team Leader and Production Team
• Reduce Fear of Failure and Job Insecurity
• High Level of Trust and Communication
• Toys and Games
• Activities Outside of Work (Associate Play)

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Motivation

• Goal Setting
• Specific goals
• Group Participation
• Reinforcement Theory Rewards
• Link to behavior
• Reward people with what they value
• Reward individuals and groups

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Satisfaction

• Survey team members
• Consider how team thinks and feels about pay,
  the project and co-workers

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Organizational Commitment

• Focus on affective commitment
• Increase team members sense of belonging
• Develop team members personal connection to
  the project

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Team Rewards

• Individual and team based rewards
• Team rewards allocated upon completion of
  project phases
• Individual rewards voted by team members
• Bonuses and office space budget

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Team Power

• The project and customer are extremely important
• Team has freedom to make decisions
• Carlos plays devils advocate, oversees entire
  project, takes advisory role, and provides group
  direction

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Structure

• Individual differences will be valued to their
  group placement
• Productive side is homogeneous in thought
• Creative heterogeneous in its formation

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Potential Process Losses

• Social loafing
• Group think
• Relationship conflict
• Conformity pressure
• Negative group norms

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Avoiding Process Losses

• Reward individual performance
• Devils advocate
• Gong
• Equal Distribution of Power

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Overlapping Conflictions

• Rewards
• Job Roles
• Personalities
• Group Dynamics
• Synergy???