Matakuliah
Tahun
Versi
: MPG09344-010 / Leadership and Organisation
: 2005
: versi/revisi 0
Pertemuan 22
(Off-Class)
Leadership in Teams and Decision
Groups
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Learning Outcomes
After studying these chapters students should be able to:
• Understand the process that determine how well a group performs
an operational task.
• Understand the different types of teams that are commonly used in
organizations and their implications for leadership.
• Understand how leadership is shared in self-managed teams and
the conditions that make these teams more effective.
• Understand the advantages of cross-functional teams and the
difficulties confronting leaders of these teams.
• Understand procedures to facilitate team learning and procedures to
build trust and cooperation among team members.
• Understand why some groups make better decisions than others.
• Understand the primary leadership functions in decision groups
• Understand procedures for leading successful meetings.
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Outline Materi
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Nature of Teams
Functional Teams
Cross-Functional Teams
Self-Managed Work Teams
Self-Defining Teams
Virtual Teams
Procedures for facilitating Team Learning
Guidelines for Team Building
Decision Making in Groups
Leadership Functions in Meetings
Guidelines for Leading Meetings
Summary
Cases
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Leadership in Teams and
Decision Groups
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• Procedures for facilitating team learning
– After-activity reviews
– Dialogue sessions
• Guidelines for team building
– Emphasize common interests and values
– Use ceremonies and rituals
– Use symbols to develop identification with the
group
– Encourage and facilitate social interaction
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– Tell people about group
activities and
achievements
– Conduct process
analysis sessions
– Conduct alignment
sessions
– Increase incentives for
mutual cooperation
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Decision making in groups
• Determinants of group processes
– Group size
– Status differentials
– Cohesiveness
– Diversity of membership
– Emotional maturity
– Physical environment
– Communication technology
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Leadership functions in meetings
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Task Oriented Behavior
Group Maintenance behavior
Task and group maintenance functions
Who should perform the leadership
functions
– Leader-centered decision groups
– Group-centered decision groups
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Guidelines for leading meetings
• Inform people about necessary
preparations for a meeting
• Share essential information with group
members
• Describe the problem without implying the
cause or solution
• Allow ample time for idea generation and
evaluation
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• Separate idea generation from idea
evaluation
• Encourage and facilitate participation
• Encourage positive restatement and idea
building
• Use systematic procedures for solution
evaluation
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• Encourage members
to look for an
integrative solution
• Encourage
consensus but do not
insist on it
• Clarify responsibilities
for implementation
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Closing
• Summary
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Types of teams
The potential advantages of teams
The success of teams
Team Building
Group Decision
The Leadership Role
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• Review and Discussion Questions
• Cases
– Southwest Engineering Services
– Building Maintenance Inc.
• Companion Website : Exercises and Reading
• Supplementary Materials:
– Gronn, P. 1999. Life in Teams; Collaborative Leadership and
Learning in Autonomous Work Units. Australian Council for
Educational Administration: Australia.
– Street, M., D. 1997. Groupthink; An Examination of Theoritical
Issues, Implications, and Future Research Suggestions. Small
Group Research. Vol. 28(1): 72-93
• Companion Website: Exercises and Reading
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