MHR 405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Virtual Team, Brainstorming, Social Loafing
13 Sep 2018
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What are teams: group of two or more people, exist to fulfill a purpose, mutually accountable for achieving common goal- influence each other, perceive themselves to be a team. How long that type of team usually exists: skill differentiation. Degree of skill/knowledge diversity in the team: authority differentiation. Degree that decision-making responsibility is distributed throughout the team or centralized. Informal groups: groups that exist primarily for the benefit of their members, reasons why informal group exist: Social identity- we define ourselves by group memberships. Team advantages/challenged: advantages, make better decisions, products/services, better information sharing. Increase employee motivation/engagement: challenged, process losses- resources needed for team maintenance, social loafing- members potentially exert less effort in teams than alone, brooks" la(cid:449)- adding more people to a late software project only makes it later. Best tasks for teams: complex tasks divisible into specialized roles, well-structured tasks- easier to coordinate, higher task interdependence. Team members must share materials, information, or expertise to perform their jobs.
