BU288 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Role Conflict
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After industrial did manufacturing really well until about 1980. Used a lot of teams and groups, have a collectivism mentality. Ability to subordinate to interest of group. All done together, all experts sit together and hash it out. Enhances organization"s learning and improves employees loyalty. Need team based rewards if using teams. Need team based training in intrapersonal skills as well. Have the right people in the team, need those people to come up with a new product. People need to take on different roles with diversity. Inability to measure performance in the middle of the task. Rolling a boulder move boulder, more people that join in just adds. Disjunctive best person is the one who has the most impact on the group. Conjunctive weakest link, working on assignment, has the biggest impact on the group, if someone does a poor job communicating. Increase group size, increase likelihood of having a weak link.
