What personal feelings do members have about each other?
A nurse manager may decide to assume personal responsibility for team building when the team is basically functional and simply needs some fine-tuning to deal more effectively with minor interpersonal issues or changing circumstances.
Managing Teams Managing teams differs from team building and depends on the task, group size and composition, productivity and cohesiveness, the group’s development and growth, and the extent of shared governance in the organization.
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Task The size of the group can influence its effectiveness, depending on the type of task: additive, disjunctive, divisible, or conjunctive (Steiner, 1972, 1976). The more people who work on an additive task (group performance depends on the sum of individual performance), the more inputs are available to produce a favorable result. For example, the game tug-of-war involves the combined effort of the team.