Public Administration - Municipal OBR250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Team Dynamics, Groupe Psa, Social Loafing
29 Dec 2017
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Teamwork by team canada at the 2014 sochi olympics. Team canada selected their team based on the new defense- first strategy. Even though they had to leave out 3 notable members of the 2010 gold winning team, they ended up winning gold again. Mutually accountable for achieving common goals influence each other. How long that type of team usually exists. Degree of skill/knowledge diversity in the team. Degree that decision-making responsibility is distributed throughout the team or centralized. Groups that exist primarily for the benefit of their members. Social identity -- we define ourselves by group memberships. Advantages: make better decisions, products/services, better information sharing, increase employee motivation/engagement. Challenges maintenance: process losses resources needed for team, social loafing members potentially exert less effort in, brooks" law adding more people to a late software teams than alone project only makes it later. Psa peugeot citroe n set up an obeya room (shown here) to speed up team decision making.
