MGMT1135 Midterm: MGMT1135_ Work group vs work teams
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This figure may give us a better idea about the differences between workgroups and work teams in the aspects of goal, synergy, accountability, and skills. A work group is a group that interacts primarily to share information and to make decisions to help each group member perform within his or her area of responsibility. Work groups have no need or opportunity to engage in collective work that requires joint effort. So their performance is merely the summation of each group member"s individual contribution. There is no positive synergy that would create an overall level of performance that is greater than the sum of those individual inputs. Put it simply, a workgroup is a collection of individuals doing their own work, albeit with interaction and/or dependency. For example, in assembly factories, workers may work in the same group based on day shift, night shift etc. but their works are independent.
