Team Performance – task types
The performance of a team is based on what you start with, namely what type and number of people are in the team and how you define what they have to do (tasks).
The ideal tasks are divisible tasks. They can be separated easily and the team members are happy with things being easily identified.
The unitary tasks are those for which the division of labor is not easy to do. There are 3 categories of unitary tasks:
- Additive task – the team members perform the same type of job. The performance resides in numbers. With a bigger team comes increased performance.
- Conjunctive task – the team members are completing different, but related, tasks for reaching the established objective. The performance of the team depends on the performance of the weakest member.
- Disjunctive tasks – the team members have the objective of finding the best solution for a problem. The performance of the team depends on the performance of the best of them, the one that finds the solution.
The characteristics that need to be taken in consideration for a team to function have their roots in the task definition and the number of members. They are: norms (the expected behavior), roles (what every team member do), status (the individual social recognition) and the cohesiveness of the team (the emotional and the task-related bonds).
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