Lecture 3

Question 1

Types of tasks

Answer 1

1.) Additive
2.) Conjunctive
3.) Disjunctive
4.) Complimentary

Question 2

Additive

Answer 2

Everyone does the same work

Question 3

Additive example

Answer 3

Addressing envelopes, painting

Question 4

Ringleman’s Additive Problem

Answer 4

Social loafing- some members are lazy while others are hard workers

Question 5

The Solution to Ringleman’s Social Loafing

Answer 5

Accountability

Question 6

Conjunctive

Answer 6

assembly line

Question 7

example of conjunctive

Answer 7

car assembly

Question 8

Problems with conjunctive

Answer 8

Weak link

Question 9

Frank & Anderson’s solution to weak link

Answer 9

Retrain, Reassign, Remove

Question 10

3 types of disjunctive

Answer 10

Problem-solving
Decision making
Judgments

Question 11

Disjunctive Example

Answer 11

Committee work

Question 12

Problems with Disjunctive

Answer 12

Competent people must speak up and prevail

Question 13

Johnson & Torcivia

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Complimentary

Answer 14

Everyone does a different job to accomplish the overall goal

Question 15

Example of Complimentary

Answer 15

Cooking dinner

Question 16

Problems with Complimentary

Answer 16

If the wrong people are doing the wrong tasks

Question 17

Laughlin & Johnson

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Wholeism

Answer 18

The relationships among members on a group is important to performance

Question 19

Reductionism

Answer 19

interactions in a group will affect the groups performance