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in Prof. Lyons\' Team 5 for the final OB project, everyone focused on his/her sp

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in Prof. Lyons' Team 5 for the final OB project, everyone focused on his/her specialty and what they did best. Each member of Team 5 knew exactly where they could go to get information when there were gaps in their knowledge. Because of the way they worked together, Team 5 produced synergistic results. This shows that Prof. Lyons Team 5 for the final OB project has had an effective Select one: O a. staff validity O b. mental model B O C transactive memory O d. potency O e. hierarchical sensitivity

Explanation / Answer

Answer -

c.Transactive memory

Explanation

Decision making in team depends on

Decision infirmity- happens when members do not posses adequate information about their domain e.g. marketing

Staff validity –staff validity refer to the degree to which members make good recommendations to leader. Staff validity is low when members are not able to effective recommendations (even with good amount of information)

Hierarchical sensitivity –

the degree to which the leader effectively weighs the recommendations of team members. Leaders may sometimes give more weight to some members and ignore others

Team states- refers to feelings and thoughts in members

Potency- refers to the degree to which they believe their team can be effective across a number of situations. Team with low potency- members are not confident about their team

Mental model-refers to the common understanding among team members regarding the task and processes. E.g. If some members believe that a particular task is very important and others believe that some another task is more important, then the mental model is poor

Transactive memory- refers to how specialized knowledge is distributed among team members

For team effectiveness members must understand how their specialized knowledge can be helpful and when to apply them. Members should know where to go when there is knowledge gap. This helps to create synergistic results

This depends on each individual member. If a member leaves, then a node in the memory system is lost

If team has high transactive memory, then each member knows which member is responsible for remembering what piece of information