MGCR 222 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Horizontal Integration, Identifiability, Learning Environment

• School: McGill University
• Department: Management Core
• Course: MGCR 222
• Professor: Alfred Jaeger

Document Summary

Group of people brought together to use complementary skills to achieve a common purpose for which they are collectively accountable. Occurs when team members accept and live up to their collective accountability by actively working together so that all their respective skills are best used to achieve team goals. Established to study specific problems and recommend solutions to them. Have formal responsibility for leading organizations and their component parts. Created and officially designated to serve a specific organizational purpose. Maybe be permanent or temporary and vary in size and composition. Emerge and coexist as a shadow to the formal structure and without any assigned purpose or endorsement. Types of informal groups: friendship groups, interest groups. Social network analysis- identifies the informal groups and networks of relationships that are active in an organization. Asking people about whom they go for work assistance versus whom are friends. Using email logs from organizations, you can map data to see how communication flows.