MHR 405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Peer Pressure, Vehicle Identification Number, Models 1

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 405
• Professor: Neil Rothenberg

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Mutually accountable for achieving common goals influence each other. Skill differentiation: how long that type of team usually exists, degree of skill/knowledge diversity in the team. Authority differentiation: degree that decision-making responsibility is distributed throughout the team or centralized. Groups that exist primarily for the benefit of their members. Reasons why informal groups exist: innate drive to bond, social identity we define ourselves by group memberships, goal accomplishment, emotional support. Challenges: make better decisions, better information sharing. Increase employee motivation/engagement: process losses-resources needed for team maintenance, social loafing members potentially exert less effort in teams than, brooks" law adding more people to a late software project only makes alone it later. Higher interdependence: team members must share information, materials and expertise, teams are usually better because of high interdependence, teams are less effective if task goals differ (e. g. serving different clients) using other coordinating mechanisms. High reciprocal a b c low pooled shared resource a ; b;