MHR 405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nominal Group Technique, Production Blocking, Brainstorming
23 Feb 2017
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Teams groups of two or more people who interact and influence each other, both are mutually accountable for achieving common goals associated with organizational objectives and perceive themselves as a social entity within an organization. Informal groups those who do not have interdependence on each other, social groups, comforted by others. Minimizes stress, source of trust building, information sharing, power, influence. Advantages under right conditions, teams make better decisions, better products and services, more engaged. Quickly share information, motivated by fulfilling the goal, secondly they feel accountability to fellow team members. Process losses resources expended towards team development and maintenance rather than doing the task. Brook"s law adding more people to a late software project only makes it later, mythical man-month. Social loafing problem when people exert less effort and perform at a lower level when working in teams than working alone. Team members tend to work together more effectively when at least partly reward for success.
