Player or Slayer?
Definitions
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Group or Team?
100
David does his best to make sure his team members are treated fairly and that nobody feels unheard.
Team Player - promoting equality and communication
100
The inability to make a decision due to having too much information or options available.
Decision paralysis
100
Marcus is in a meeting with his group. He gets an important email from a colleague and checks his phone to look at it. At the next meeting, he's scolded for forgetting an important task his group needed him to do.
Shut off technology / avoid multitasking
100
A classroom of students
Group
200
Lauren is a perfectionist and can't stand it when other team members do things a different way. She often steps in to "correct" them.
Team Slayer - egocentric need to control
200
The degree to which team members experience substantial freedom, independence, and discretion in their work
Autonomy
200
Jake needs to keep tabs on how his group's ongoing project, so he asked his group members to CC him on all their emails for the project. This led to a huge influx of information for Jake to sort through.
Be more selective with information (need-to-know basis)
200
The physicians, nurses, and CNAs in charge of caring for a patient
Team
300
Saoirse is a very cautious person. They're always the first to shoot down ideas in the group that they think are bad.
Team slayer - cynicism, negativity taking the energy from the team
300
The tendency for a group to make more extreme decisions after a discussion.
Group polarization
300
Janice and Delilah were tasked with researching local farms for their project. There was a lot of available information, so they kept digging for more, even after their group no longer needed more information.
Limit the search (know when to stop)
300
The kitchen & wait staff at a restaurant
Team
400
Daniel refuses to work with Luca, whom he doesn't get along with.
Team Slayer - bad behavior/ cooperation
400
When individuals in a group compare their opinions and behaviors to those of others, leading to a strengthening of their initial inclinations.
Social comparatives / normative influence
400
During their research on local farms, Janice and Delilah spent a lot of time looking into dairy farms even though their group only needed information on crop-yielding farms.
Screen information / recognize irrelevant information
400
An office of customer service representatives
Pseudo-team (team, but not very interdependent - often can work without each other)