Project Staff Team
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You will be a member of the newly-formed project staff team. This team will need to realize process gains within its first three months. You want to help, not hinder, the team's progress, so you decide to do some research upfront. You bring up your challenge at your managerial networking meeting. You pose the following questions to the group.
What kind of work group is the project staff team - task force, command group, or friendship group?
What are the pros and cons of a task force, command group and friendship group?
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Based on the case scenario, this solution discusses whether the work group is defined as task force, command group, or friendship group, including the pros and cons of each group type.
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1. What kind of work group is the project staff team - task force, command group, or friendship group? What are the pro and cons of a task force, command group and friendship group?
It seems that the TASK FORCE GROUP would be the most appropriate, since it has a project focus.
Friend/Social Group -
While all groups will have both social and task dimensions, some groups are predominantly social in their orientation. Some groups form spontaneously, such as a group of friends. Other groups are contrived, that is, they are formed for a specific purpose. Organized clubs, social groups, or committees are contrived groups. Examples of these groups would be families and social clubs. These groups provide for our safety and solidarity needs and they help us ...
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