Interactions within a team can influence its efficiency. The document discusses ways to minimize production blocking and social loafing, including using nominal groups technique, promoting involvement, and implementing peer-evaluations. It also presents factors that can improve decision making, such as being impartial, encouraging debate, and welcoming outside perspectives. While groups provide benefits like security and skill-building, their dynamics must be managed to maximize quality and efficiency.

1. How interactions in a team
influence its efficiency

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4. • Nominal groups technique
• Writing down ideas
• Mixing work in group and work individually
• Using trained facilitator
• Introducing newcomers or changing membership
Ways to minimize production blocking

8. • Increase identifiability
• Promote involvement
• Set goals
• Use single-digit team
• Train team members together
• Try peer-evaluations
Factors to minimize social loafing

10. 75% of participants confirmed at least once
33% of participants confirmed on half or more of critical trials

11. How to Resist Unwanted Influences
• Admit your mistakes
• Take responsibility for your decisions
• Assert unique identity
• Value your independence
• Oppose unjust systems
• Don't sacrifice personal or civic freedoms for the illusion of security

13. Ways to improve decision making
• Be impartial–do not endorse any position
• Encourage critical evaluation and debate
• Subdivide the group, then reunite to air differences
• Welcome input of a genuine dissenter
• Welcome critiques from outside experts

14. Does the group matter?
• Sense of security and belonging
• Skill-building
• Error-checking
• Commitment
• Quality
• Efficiency

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