Team Dynamics

Team Dynamics

1. Decision making

   • Strength
     • Higher quality - more complete and diverse info
       • Diversity
         • Private info
       • Independence
         • Opinions aren't determined by the options of others
       • Decentralisation
         • able to specialise and draw on local knowledge
       • Aggregation
         • turning private judgements into a collective decision
     • Higher decision acceptance and commitment
   • Weakness
     • Time constraints
       • takes time to organise and coordinate when working in teams
     • Evaluation
       • believe that others are silently evaluating you
     • Conformity to peer pressure
       • Suppress opinons that oppose to team norms
         • Elevator conformity study
     • Group think
       • Space Shuttle Challenger
     • Social loafing
       • efforts toward a common goal --> individual not accountable for their effort--> exert less effort
         • Effort is pooled
         • Individuals are not accountable
         • Responsibility is diffused
       • How to minimise
         • make individual performance more visible
           • Form small teams
           • specialise tasks
           • measure individual performance
         • increase employee motivation
           • increase job enrichment
           • select motivated employees