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Week 6

Groups and Teams Processes


Groups & Teams

1. Formal groups—established by organization


2. Informal groups—self-created by members
Group Performance Factors

Factors Affecting Group


Performance

Composition Size Norms Cohesiveness

Informal
Leadership
Stages of Group Development

norming

adjourning storming

Self managing

performing
Bruce Tuckman’s Evolution of a Group
Factors affecting Group Decision Making

Factors Affecting Norms


Size Group Performance (culture &
(Formal or predictability)
informal)

Informal
leadership
Cohesiveness
Composition (referent EQ
(heter vs homo) (level of
commitment) Situational
Expert power )
Decision Making

Approaches to Decision
Making

Rational Behavioral Practical


Approach Approach Approach

Bounded rationality
factualness Combination
Prospect theory
Rule of thumb
Factors affecting Decision Making
Politica
lly correct

Political
Forces

Ethics Intuition
Responsibility?

Risk Escalation of
Propensity Commitment
Factors affecting Group Decision Making

Factors Affecting
Group Decision Making

Group Group Problem


Groupthink
Polarization Solving

Herd mentality (homo group) Nominal group tech


(eliminate hindsight bias)

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