Threats to group performance

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Threats to group performance

Why is it difficult to work in groups?

Does culture matter?

The Commons Dilemma

Groupthink: An overview

The Road to Abilene

Low motivation I: Needs satisfaction

Job characteristics model

Job enlargement

Low Motivation II: Equity

Responses to equity situations

Communication breakdowns

Noise and selective filtering

Shape and size of communication networks

The matching hypothesis

Personality conflict

Development of types

Myers-Briggs elaboration

Myers-Briggs I/E (25%/75%)

Myers-Briggs N/S (25%/75%)

Myers-Briggs T/F (W-35/65%; M-65/35%)

Myers-Briggs P/J (20%/80%)

Some types around our school

Is this science?

Why use this? Ah-ha!

Avoiding low performance

Author: Tom Finholt

Email: finholt@umich.edu

Home Page: http://www.si.umich.edu/~finholt/SI_505/SI505-syllabus.html

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