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A cross-functional team (XFN), also known as a multidisciplinary team or interdisciplinary team, [1] [2] [3] is a group of people with different functional expertise working toward a common goal. [4] It may include people from finance, marketing, operations, and human resources departments. Typically, it includes employees from all levels of an ...
Multiteam systems ( MTSs) are "two or more teams that interface directly and interdependently in response to environmental contingencies toward the accomplishment of collective goals. MTS boundaries are defined by virtue of the fact that all teams within the system, while pursuing different proximal goals, share at least one common distal goal ...
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 ...
Team composition refers to the overall mix of characteristics among people in a team, which is a unit of two or more individuals who interact interdependently to achieve a common objective. [1] It is based on the attributes among individuals that comprise the team, in addition to their main objective. Team composition is usually either ...
Collaboration (from Latin com- "with" + laborare "to labor", "to work") is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal. [1] Collaboration is similar to cooperation. Most collaboration requires leadership, [vague] although the form of leadership can be social within a ...
Superordinate goals. In social psychology, superordinate goals are goals that are worth completing but require two or more social groups to cooperatively achieve. [1] The idea was proposed by social psychologist Muzafer Sherif in his experiments on intergroup relations, run in the 1940s and 1950s, as a way of reducing conflict between competing ...
Functional diversity encapsulates the cognitive resource diversity theory, which is the idea that diversity of cognitive resources promotes creativity and innovation, problem solving capacity, and organizational flexibility. Functionally diverse teams “consist of individuals with a variety of educational and training backgrounds working ...
A group of people forming a strategy. A group of people collaborating. Teamwork is the collaborative effort of a group to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in an effective and efficient way. [1] [2] Teamwork is seen within the framework of a team, which is a group of interdependent individuals who work together towards a common goal.