MGMT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Santa Barbara City College, Social Loafing, Peer Pressure
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Cooperation when efforts are systematically integrated to achieve a collective objective. Cooperation is superior to competition and individualistic efforts in promoting achievement and productivity. Trust defined as reciprocal faith in others, intentions and behaviours. It is based on credibility, and by enhancing this showing professionalism, technical ability and good business sense you can build trust in your team members. Cohesiveness -the tendency of a group of team to stick together, this is a familiar sense of togetherness. Performance goals and feedback teams are a collection of individuals organized for a collective purpose. That purpose needs to be defined in terms of specific, measurable, challenging(but achievable) performance goals with continual feedback to tell team members how well they are doing. Motivation through mutual accountability crates mutual trust and commitment a key part in motivating members for team effort. To bring about this team culture managers often allow teams to do hiring of new members.
