PSYCH238 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Fortune 500, Social Loafing, Process Gain

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH238
• Professor: Doug Brown

Document Summary

Team: two or more people who interact interdependently over some period of time to accomplish a common goals related to some tasks-oriented purpose. the individuals have influence on one another. Cohen and bailey - 68% of fortune 100 companies. Nature of the interaction that occur between teams. Has an impact on how the company performs. Process gain: you get more out of a group of people than you thought you would. Process loss: get less out of a group of people than you thought based on their skills/abilities: process loss: Coordination loss: when you put people together in a team, they need to spend some of their time communicating and coordinating with the people on their team in order to be successful. Communication takes time away from what they should be doing. Motivation loss: people dont work as hard or effectively as they would individually.