Team effectiveness

US Navy sailors effectively hauling in a mooring line (2010)

Team effectiveness (also referred to as group effectiveness) is the capacity a team has to accomplish the goals or objectives administered by an authorized personnel or the organization.[1] A team is a collection of individuals who are interdependent in their tasks, share responsibility for outcomes, and view themselves as a unit embedded in an institutional or organizational system which operates within the established boundaries of that system.[2] Teams and groups have established a synonymous relationship within the confines of processes and research relating to their effectiveness[3] (i.e. group cohesiveness, teamwork) while still maintaining their independence as two separate units, as groups and their members are independent of each other's role, skill, knowledge or purpose versus teams and their members, who are interdependent upon each other's role, skill, knowledge and purpose.

There are many team effectiveness models including Rubin, Plovnick, and Fry's GRPI model,[4] the Katzenbach and Smith model,[5] the T7 model,[6] the LaFasto and Larson model,[7] the Hackman model,[8] the Lencioni model[9] and the Google model.[10]

  1. ^ Aubé, Caroline; Rousseau, Vincent (September 2011). "Interpersonal aggression and team effectiveness: The mediating role of team goal commitment". Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. 84 (3): 567. doi:10.1348/096317910X492568.
  2. ^ Halvorsen, Kristin (2013). "Team decision making in the workplace: A systematic review of discourse analytic studies". Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice. 7 (3): 273–296. doi:10.1558/japl.v7i3.273.
  3. ^ Kozlowski, Steve W.J.; Ilgen, Daniel R. (December 2006). "Enhancing the Effectiveness of Work Groups and Teams". Psychological Science in the Public Interest. 7 (3): 77–124. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.115.953. doi:10.1111/j.1529-1006.2006.00030.x. PMID 26158912. S2CID 20030504.
  4. ^ "The GRPI Model of Team Effectiveness".
  5. ^ "The Wisdom of Teams".
  6. ^ "Driving Team Effectiveness" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
  7. ^ "Teamwork". 2019-02-02.
  8. ^ "A Normative Model of Work Team Effectiveness" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-11-18. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
  9. ^ "Five Dysfunctions of a Team".
  10. ^ "Understanding team effectiveness".