BUS-Z - Business BUS-Z 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Groupthink, Information Overload, Transactive Memory

• School: IUPUI
• Department: BUS-Z - Business
• Course: BUS-Z - Business BUS-Z 302
• Professor: D A R R E L L E.B R O W N

Document Summary

Team process the different types of activities and interactions that occur within teams and contribute to completing their ultimate goals. Team value: process gain team achieves more than you would expect based on capabilities of individual members, process loss team achieves less than you would expect based on the capabilities of individual members. Factors leading to process loss: coordination loss consumes time and energy that could otherwise be devoted to task activity. Production blocking members have to wait on one another before they can do their part of the team task. Ex, time spent in meeting so can"t get work done: motivation loss team members do not work as hard as they could. Social loafing individual members exert less effort than they would if they worked alone on the same tasks. Taskwork processes activities directly related to accomplishing team tasks: creative behavior when teams engage in creative behavior, their activities are focused on generating novel and useful ideas and solutions.