Group Dynamics for Teams: Team Norms
Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, read Chapter 3 of the course textbook.
Zenobia Xanthopoulos feels that there is a market for her company, Learn-E-Now, in the continent of Africa, and she specifically wants to expand her company into three countries in Africa. As she is planning to assemble a team to complete this overall goal, she is deciding on what team norms are important to promote and reinforce.
In your discussion post, address the following:
State three team norms that Ms. Xanthopoulos should develop and emphasize within this team.
Explain why each norm selected can be effective toward her overall goal.
Identify the strategies or practices Ms. Xanthopoulos should use to create and establish each of these norms.
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Levi, D., & Askay, D. A. (2021). Group dynamics for teams (6th ed.). Sage Publications.
Chapter 1: Understanding Teams
Chapter 2: Defining Team Success
Chapter 3: Team Beginnings
The full-text version of this ebook is available through the platform. Chapter 1 provides information that defines what constitutes groups and teams. The chapter also provides information about groups and teams within organizations and will assist you in your Post Your Introduction discussion forum this week. Chapter 2 provides information about the characteristics that constitute team success and the conditions that are needed, and will assist you in your Developing High Performance Teams at Learn-E-Now discussion forum this week. Chapter 3 provides information about the development of teams, socialization within teams, and development of team norms, and will assist you in your Team Norms discussion forum this week.
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Seamless interactions in teams will be critical for ensuring that Ms. Xanthopoulos achieves her goal of expanding her Learn-E-Now company in the three African nations. Integrating and reinforcing team norms will facilitate this process because they determine expectations and shape the behavior of all members, leading to success. In this context, Ms. Xanthopoulos should focus on high performance, equal participation, and courtesy norms for his African team.
Emphasizing these three norms is critical because they can create a holistic and goal-focused team vital to the firm’s thriving in a new business environment. For instance, Levi (2017) reveals that the high-performance norm would create a situation where all members challenge each other to accomplish set objectives. It would stimulate the laggards to compete and meet the productivity rate of