BUS 272 Lecture Notes - Social Loafing, Leeroy Jenkins, Cross-Functional Team

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 272
• Professor: Helene Dillman

Document Summary

Two or more people with a common relationship. A small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable. Groups of 5 to 12 employees from the same department. Meet for a few hours each week to discuss ways of improving quality, efficiency, and the work environment. Planning, scheduling work, assigning tasks, taking action on problems etc. *not a clear line of authority- can cause problems. Employees from about the same hierarchical level, but from different work. Cross-functional teams areas, who come together to accomplish a task. long term in nature). Committee: group composed of members from different departments (more: example: centers of excellence in marketing. Use computer technology to tie together physically dispersed members in order to achieve a common goal: example, make love not warcraft, & leeroy jenkins.