Social Loafing

A team justifies its existence only if it brings added value through numbers. That means if 1+1=3. An employee has the tendency to ‘free-ride”. It is human nature. Social loafing is an organizational behavior of an employee that makes less effort in a team compared with the way he behaves next to an individual task. The...

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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...

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Team vs. Virtual Team

The classical characteristics of a team are in the same time the ideal requirements: Task related: Challenging and complex tasks Tasks that create interdependence Structural: Stability of the team Size – small is beautiful Expertise that fits the needs Physical proximity Rules and procedures Diversity External...

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Punctuated Equilibrium in a team

Punctuated Equilibrium theory is a theory in biology that basically states that the most sexually reproducing species is for most of the time in state of stasis, with little evolutionary change, and when evolution happens is rapid having as a results the split in two distinct species, process called cladogenesis. In organizational...

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Organizational behavior – definition

Organizational behavior is, as simple as possible said, the representation of people’s dynamics in an organized environment: company, public sector or NGO = a collective person. Dynamics, in physics, is the study of the causes of motion and its five variables: momentum, force, potential energy, pressure and power. Momentum is...

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