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Teambuilding/Group Process
Identify a department/group/team that benefit from teambuilding and/or group process intervention.
Justify and develop an intervention plan.
Explain the importance of this intervention.
Evaluate team effectiveness according to the factors identified in your textbook, e.g., communications, roles, problem solving and decision-making, group norms, and use of leadership and authority. If you are evaluating a team on which you participate, include results from the Team-Building information in your textbook.
Team-building Activities: See “Team-Building Activities,” in your textbook. Which activities would you include? Justify your decisions.
Results; how would you evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention? What results would you expect?
What else have you learned about group process/team effectiveness that could be applied?
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Do the nonverbal communication behavior differences
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Medians for the relevant variables
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The implied demand uncertainty spectrum
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Assume that investors cannot observe effort
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Communications-roles-problem solving and decision-making
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Kind of flexibility should be built into distribution system
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