MHR 405 Chapter Notes -Production Planning, Social Loafing, Groupthink
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1 Dec 2012
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*team: two or more people with a common goal who one independent upon each other to achieve a particular task and who hold themselves accountable to each other. *group: two or more people with common interest and continuing interaction. Task independence: the degree of task-drivin interaction among work team members. Formal teams are critical to organization success, since individuals working in organization cannot do everything themselves. 3 types of independence in teams: *pooled interdependence. When task independence is pooled, it means that team member work individually but either draw from a pool of common inputs or pool their outputs. Such team rely on other for resources with the output of one members becoming the input of another. Football teams, track and field: *reciprocal independence. Such teams, members have reciprocal independence, with work being exchanged back and forth among them. Highest form of task independence of the three; requires the best teamwork skills.