ORGS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Brainstorming, Decision-Making

• School: York University
• Department: Organization Studies
• Course: ORGS 1000
• Professor: Marnie Smith

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Lecture 23 resulting from members feeling less accountable for team outcomes relative to independent work that results in individually identifiable outcomes. Activities of team members that relate directly to the accomplishment of team tasks. Taskwork occurs anytime members interact with tools or technologies. 3 types of taskwork processes: creative behaviour. The team is focused on generating novel and useful ideas and solutions (brainstorming team process used to generate ideas) Express all ideas that come to mind ( no matter how strange) Go for quantity of ideas rather than quality. Build on ideas of others: decision making. Members gather and consider information relevant to their area of specialization, and then make recommendations to a team leader. Decision informality degree to which team members possess adequate info about their own task responsibilities. Staff validity degree to which team members make good recommendations to team leader. Hierarchal sensitivity degree to which team leader affectively weighs recommendations of members: boundary spanning.