Senior Round Table: “The Impact of Process and Perception on Team Effectiveness”
Featured Speakers
Corinne Bendersky
Associate Professor of Management and Organizations
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Maia Young
Associate Professor of Management and Organizations
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Karren Fink
CHRO
Edmunds.com
Summary:
Professor Bendersky will present a framework for team effectiveness that emphasizes processes and “emergent states,” which are things like shared mental models, learning orientation and collective emotion (or affect) that have been receiving a lot of research attention lately.
Professor Young will lead the group through a short emotion perception task and discuss emotion perception as a key skill for leaders. Simply put, groups can achieve more when a leader is able to detect both positive and negative emotions among team members.
Karren Fink will present a case study on innovative team practice taking place at Edmunds.com.
