Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Brainstorming, Social Loafing, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Sarah Ross

Document Summary

Team two or more people interacting interdependently to achieve a common goal. Interacting who is/isn"t in the group, can be face to face or verbal. Interdependently reliance on other group members to accomplish goals. Team development: forming getting to know one another, storming dealing with conflict and criticism, norming resolve issues, begin to cooperate, norms develop. A more productive stage begins: performing members are comfortable in their roles; the team makes progress towards its goals, adjusting separate and disperse from the team, often occurs with project teams. Not all groups go through a successful midpoint change and perform poorly at the end. Lecture 7 notes: task interdependence being linked to other individuals to share information, materials, and resources needed to accomplish work for the team. More coordination results in a better ability to adapt to changes: pooled working independently and putting your product into a pile.