Team Management, Alignment and Culture
Objectives
The specific goals of the course are:
1. understand the benefits and limitations of teamwork
2. examine the different contributions members bring to the team
3. acknowledge our biased view of human action
4. understand the need to adjust leader behavior to reach all team members
5. recognize that teams exist within an organizational culture
General characterization
Code
14243
Credits
3
Responsible teacher
Pedro Neves | Nadim Habib
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - Available soon
Teaching language
Portuguese | English
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
Keegan, C. (2005). When failure is not an
option. Harvard Business Review, July-August, 41-50.
Knight, R. (2020). How to talk to your team when the future is uncertain.
Harvard Business Review Digital Article, April 20.
Pulakos, E. ,& Kaiser, R.B. (2020). To build an agile team, commit to
organizational stability. Harvard Business Review Digital Article, April 7.
Warrick, D.D. (2014). What leaders can learn about teamwork and developing high
performance teams from Organization Development practitioners. OD Practitioner,
46, 68-75.
Teaching method
. Lectures
. Group discussion
. Case studies
. Self-Assesments
. Exercises
. Discussion of assigned readings
Evaluation method
The assessment of this curricular unit is done
together with the block of curricular units of the same area of knowledge. This
assessment has 3 moments, which together define the final grade of the
curricular unit:
• Individual exam with a weighting of 50% of the total mark
• Group work with a weighting of 35% of the total grade value
• Individual reflection-action exercise carried out at the end of the
curricular unit, with a weighting of 15% of the total grade value. The set of
individual action-reflection exercises is a journaling activity, which will
constitute, at the end, a learning portfolio capable of synthesising the
contributions of the Executive Master for that student.
Subject matter
. advantages and disadvantages of teams
. roles of team-members
. biases and other team disfunctions
. adjusting to the context: situational leadership
. creating the right context for teamwork
. characteristics of effective teams