MHR 405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Loafing, Virtual Team, Belief
28 Feb 2022
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Mutually accountable for achieving common goals - influence each other. Permanence - how long that type of team usually exists. Skill differentiation - degree of skill/knowledge diversity in the team. Authority differentiation - degree that decision-making responsibility is distributed through the team or centralized. Groups that exist primarily for the benefit or their members. Social identity - we define ourselves by group memberships. Process losses - resources needed for team maintenance. Social loafing - members potentially exert less effort in teams than alone. Brooks" law - adding more people to a late software project only makes it later. Team members must share materials, information, or expertise to perform their jobs. Teams are less effective if task goals differ (ex: serves different clients) using other coordinating mechanism. Need less time to coordinate roles and resolve differences. But team must be large enough to accomplish task. Effective team members must be willing and able to work on the team.
