Lecture 3 Flashcards
Types of tasks
1.) Additive
2.) Conjunctive
3.) Disjunctive
4.) Complimentary
Additive
Everyone does the same work
Additive example
Addressing envelopes, painting
Ringleman’s Additive Problem
Social loafing- some members are lazy while others are hard workers
The Solution to Ringleman’s Social Loafing
Accountability
Conjunctive
assembly line
example of conjunctive
car assembly
Problems with conjunctive
Weak link
Frank & Anderson’s solution to weak link
Retrain, Reassign, Remove
3 types of disjunctive
Problem-solving
Decision making
Judgments
Disjunctive Example
Committee work
Problems with Disjunctive
Competent people must speak up and prevail
Johnson & Torcivia
1.) They grouped people based on answers and found when you pair people who are correct and wrong 72% of the time the right person will prevail but if the wrong people are grouped than they will only get worse
Complimentary
Everyone does a different job to accomplish the overall goal
Example of Complimentary
Cooking dinner
Problems with Complimentary
If the wrong people are doing the wrong tasks
Laughlin & Johnson
They had people take an initial test and then grouped pairs based on scores to retake
Low people will pull partners down
Medium and high people will help each other
Wholeism
The relationships among members on a group is important to performance
Reductionism
interactions in a group will affect the groups performance
