BUS 2090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nominal Group Technique, Mental Models, Groupthink
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Unit 7: decision making and groups and teamwork. Group: two or more people interacting interdependently to achieve a common goal. Formal work groups: groups that are established by organizations to facilitate the achievement of organizational goals. Informal groups: groups that emerge naturally in response to the common interests of organizational members. Stages of group development: forming - whats the purpose, storming - sorting out roles and responsibilities and solving con ict, norming - resolve issues and develop social consensus, performing - energy devoted to task accomplishment, adjourning. Group structure refers to the the characteristics of the stable social organization of a group - the way it is put together. Larger groups can be less satisfactory (more con ict, friendships etc. ) Additive tasks: tasks in which group performance is dependent on the sum of the performance of individual group members. Disjunctive tasks: tasks in which group performance is dependent on the performance of the best group member.
