Leadership Team Performance, Productivity and Communication

Leadership Team Performance, Productivity and Communication

Please review the attached MS-Word to read the essay questions and my likely guesses to them. Then read the attached support documents that are direct excerpts form the class textbook to determine for yourself what the appropriate answer is to the essay questions. Since these excerpt are from the class textbook, please cite that textbook in your reference list.

Q1.         What are some effective strategies for enhancing successful team performance? How can these strategies help to decrease threats to team performance and motivation?

Engagement: Employee feel that their input is listen to (threat = team member not being listened to)

Motivation: Employees feel their contributions are going have an impact and positively affect the environment (threat = perception or reality that their contributions do not have an impact.  Social loafers damage the team.)

Q2.         What are some common threats to each of the essential conditions for successful team performance? What are the psychological factors underpinning these threats?

Social Loafing by some member is a threat to motivation and can result in social loafing

Free Riding by some members is a threat to motivation and likely to increase as the team grows

Optimal team size should not exceed a single digit)

Q3.         What are some of the possible biases and points of error that may threaten the ability of teams to share and use knowledge accurately?

Positive Illusion Bias (Unwarranted beliefs in one’s own superiority)

uneven communication problem (people who do the most talking may not be the most informed)

Q4.          Integrate some examples of team mental models and define them in the context of answering the other questions

I have no answers on this one and need the essay writer to do this effort