Chapter 12 Effective Interdisciplinary Teams

Question 1

Human Resources management

Answer 1

hanging the human capital of an organization

Question 2

Yield ratio

Answer 2

ratio of people who progress from one step to the next in the hiring process

Question 3

Disparate impact

Answer 3

When a group if unintentionally disfavored in hiring process, if it can be proven that this capability is materially related to job success then it is legal

Question 4

Disparate treatment

Answer 4

Intention exclusion of particular groups of people from the hiring process and this is not legal

Question 5

Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)

Answer 5

requires employers to pay 1.5 times the normal salary (“time and a half”) for any hours over 40 per week

Question 6

“interacting group” method

Answer 6

-way of group decision making
-unstructured discussion and then some form of voting
-drawbacks: effort to organize and maintain group, groups often motivated to reach a conclusion, central tendency effect (or groupthink), groups lower on hierarchy than others may feel pressured to stay silent, aggressive personalities have undue influence

Question 7

Nominal group technique (or estimate-talk-estimate)

Answer 7

-problem stated by group leader, each team write down idea on paper (silently), everyone presents in round-robin order, after discussion, silent voting period
-advantage, everyone is heard

Question 8

Delphi method

Answer 8

-asynchronous architecture
-anonymous survey with open-ended quarionnaires to all participates
-responses are aggregated and summarized for group and redistributed
-continues for 3-5 rounds until consensus is reached

Question 9

Consensus mapping

Answer 9

-particular technique for sequencing and clustering a set of activities into an action plan: assumes list of ideas has already been created and vetted for accuracy
-small group clusters tasks into categories, small groups come to consensus, group leader creates straw man map, map reconfiguration step, map consolidation

Question 10

Prediction markets

Answer 10

-group management process
-participants are given money to play with, proposed ideas are bought and sold and traded at market rates
-ideas that are more popular will increase in price, and less popular ideas will decline; when prices reach equilibrium top ideas are selected
-drawback is this requires significant degree of infrastructure

Question 11

Parliamentary procedure

Answer 11

=way to keep large groups on top and make sure all participants have chance to speak
-Robert’s Rules of Order is a popular book describing parliamentary procedure
-moderate follows established rules to determine who may speak at what time and on what topic