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Understanding Team Dynamics and Performance Study Guide

This guide explores the Team Performance Model, a framework for analyzing team success. It covers essential concepts such as team inputs, processes like cohesion and conflict, and the resulting outcomes of team performance, satisfaction, and viability. Learn how to foster effective teamwork by understanding the interplay of these elements.

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Leadership, Motivation, and Team Performance

Definitions and Dimensions of Leadership

This content explores leadership definitions, bases of power, and different leadership behaviors and styles.

  • Leadership definitions
  • Bases of Power
  • Reward power
  • Coercive power
  • Legitimate power
  • Expert power
  • Referent power
  • Charisma
  • Transactional Leadership
  • Transformational Leadership
  • Inspirational communication
  • Intellectual stimulation
  • Supportive leadership
  • Personal recognition
  • Initiating structure
  • Consideration

Leadership Behaviors and Professor Performance

Discussion regarding leadership behaviors including structure and consideration associated with professor performance and gender.

  • Leadership behaviors
  • Structure and consideration
  • Professor performance
  • Gender and leadership

Gender and Leadership Role Congruity Theory

Role Congruity Theory examines gender roles, expectations for actual and ideal behavior, and the effects of role incongruity in leadership roles.

  • Role Congruity Theory
  • Gender Roles
  • Communal traits
  • Agentic traits
  • Role Incongruity
  • Leadership Roles

Team Performance Model and Cohesion

The Team Performance Model examines team inputs, processes, and outcomes including cohesion, collective efficacy, and performance.

  • Team Performance Model
  • Team Inputs
  • Team Processes
  • Team Outcomes
  • Team Cohesion
  • Interpersonal Cohesion
  • Task Commitment
  • Group Pride
  • Collective Efficacy
  • Task Conflict
  • Relationship Conflict
  • Team Performance
  • Team Satisfaction
  • Team Viability

Exam 2 Organizational Behavior Review

Review for Exam 2 focused on application of moderators, mediators, reliability, validity, motivation, leadership, and teams.

  • Moderators
  • Mediators
  • Reliability and validity
  • Motivation
  • Determinants of performance model
  • Employee engagement
  • Job characteristics model
  • Expectancy theory
  • Equity theory
  • Distributive, procedural, and interactional justice
  • Goal theory
  • Self-efficacy
  • Leadership
  • Transformational leadership
  • Transactional leadership
  • Bases of power
  • Charisma
  • Consideration and initiating structure
  • Role congruity theory
  • Teams

Organizational Psychology Motivation Theories

This content explores motivation defined by intensity, direction, and persistence, including job-based, outcome-based, and person-based theories.

  • Motivation intensity, direction, and persistence
  • Determinants of job performance model
  • Employee engagement
  • Job characteristics model
  • Skill variety
  • Task significance
  • Task identity
  • Autonomy
  • Feedback
  • Expectancy Theory
  • Equity Theory
  • Organizational Justice
  • Distributive, Procedural, and Interactive justice
  • Goal theory
  • Self-efficacy theory
  • Self-determination theory
  • Competence, Autonomy, and Relatedness

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