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Level 7 Diploma in Business and Organisational Psychology

Dysfunctions and Barriers in Team Building

BOP705 · Team Building — Week 6 of 16

CourseBOP705
Week6 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Dysfunctions and Barriers in Team Building

  1. Groupthink and premature consensus
  2. Social loafing, diffusion of responsibility, and free-riding
  3. Coordination loss and boundary-spanning failures
  4. Evidence-based diagnostic tools and corrective interventions
  5. (L012) Boundary Spanning Leadership: Boundaries
  6. Lecture 47: Building Great Teams

What you will be able to do

  • 2.3 Critically analyse the issues that can occur around team building and offer solutions in an organisation context.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: critically analyse the issues that can occur around team building and offer solutions in an organisation context.

Study materials

Videos

  • (L012) Boundary Spanning Leadership: Boundaries · YouTube · North Dakota Public Health Training Network · 28 min · for registered students
  • Group Size & Performance - Organizational Psychology Lecture 10.7 · YouTube · Professor Q · 3 min · for registered students
  • The Why Podcast: Why do teams fall apart – and what can we do about it? · YouTube · London Business School · 39 min · for registered students
  • Five problems we encounter when managing teams virtually (and how to overcome them) · YouTube · London Business School · 4 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Principles of Social Psychology, ch. 11: Working Groups: Performance and Decision Making · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 547–610 · for registered students
  • Organizational Behavior, ch. 9: Managing Groups and Teams · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 357–402 · for registered students
  • The impact of engaging leadership on employee engagement and team effectiveness · Reading · Reading, article · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Foundations of Teams in Organisations
  • Week 2: Strategic Value and Systems of Team Working
  • Week 3: Theories of Team and Group Development
  • Week 4: Anatomy of High-Performance Teams
  • Week 5: Structured Management Team Development Frameworks
  • Week 6: Dysfunctions and Barriers in Team Building
  • Week 7: Organisational Demography and Team Composition
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Values, Attitudes, and Normative Team Dynamics
  • Week 10: Conflict Dynamics and Interventions
  • Week 11: Trust and Relational Architecture in Team Management
  • Week 12: Applying Team Building in practice: case studies
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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