COMMERCE 1BA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Job Performance, Group Development, Mental Models
18 Jun 2016
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Two or more people interacting interdependently: have a common goal and interact with each other. Shared belief a team can successfully perform a task. Sweat: high effort towards the groups task. Style: sensible strategies for accomplishing goals. Formed by organizations to achieve goals: most common 1 manager and several employees. Form naturally in response to common interests: often cuts across formal groups, can help or hurt organizations, crucial for information transfer and career outcomes. Task forces/project teams: temporary groups that achieve particular goals. Committees: permanent group that handle recurrent assignments. Group development stages: for new groups, can be short circuited in well acquainted groups, also depends on organizational structure. Punctuated equilibrium: for groups with a specific deadline. Midpoint transition: midpoint change in group activity, determines performance. Phase 2: rush to task completion, resist deadline changes. Negatively correlated with group membership satisfaction: less interaction and trust, harder to identify with success.
