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To what extent do members trust and respect each other? For a disjunctive task (the group succeeds if one member succeeds), the greater the number of people, the higher the probability that one group member will solve the problem. Consider the Olympics. The more athletes on one team, the greater the opportunity for a gold […]

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

How does the group make decisions? ● Assessing the need ● Training onsite ● Implementing and sustaining training McKeon, Cunningham, and Detty Oswaks (2009) tested TeamSTEPPS in a health care set- ting and found that these safety-oriented skills can be taught and that nurses can learn to practice and evaluate high-reliability behaviors in practice. Simulation-based

To what extent do group members understand and accept their roles? Team-Building Activities Team-building activities, originally designed to improve interpersonal workplace relation- ships, have expanded to include meeting goals and accomplishing tasks (Salas et al., 2008). A recent study found that female students in medicine and nursing were more open-minded about cooperating with other health

To what extent do the team members understand and accept the goals of the organization? The following questions may be asked: 1. To what extent do the team’s members understand and accept the goals of the organization? 2. What, if any, hidden agendas interfere with the group’s performance? Hidden agendas are members’ individual unspoken objectives

The most important role in a group is the leadership role. Leaders are appointed for most formal groups, such as command groups, teams, committees, or task forces. Leaders in informal groups tend to emerge over time and in relation to the task to be performed. Some of the factors contributing to the emergence of leadership

Nurturing roles include: ● Encourager. Compliments members for their opinions and contributions to the group ● Harmonizer. Relieves tension and conflict ● Compromiser. Suppresses own position to maintain group harmony ● Gatekeeper. Encourages all group members to communicate and participate ● Group observer. Takes note of group processes and dynamics and informs group of them

Task roles include: ● Initiator–contributor. Redefines problems and offers solutions, clarifies objectives, suggests agenda items, and maintains time limits ● Information seeker. Pursues descriptive bases for the group’s work ● Information giver. Expands information given by sharing experiences and making inferences ● Opinion seeker. Explores viewpoints that clarify or reflect the values of other members’

Conceptual scheme of a basic social system. Source: Adapted from Homans, G. (1950).. The human group. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; and Homans, G. (1961). Social behavior: Its elementary forms. New York: Harcourt Brace. By permission of Transaction Publishers. 148 PART 2 • LEARNING KEY SKILLS IN NURSING MANAGEMENT deal with absences that affect the

In the third stage, norming, the group defines its goals and rules of behavior. The group determines what are or are not acceptable behaviors and attitudes. The group structure, roles, and relationships become clearer. Cohesiveness develops. The leader explains standards of per- formance and behavior, defines the group’s structure, and facilitates relationship building. In the