You work for a software manufacturer, and the supervisor of your division has just informed your work team that the new software designed to give people access to the Internet keeps crashing
Your supervisor is under a deadline to detect the source of the problem and fix it, so he assigns you and four other employees to a "bug detector" group to find the problem and correct it. What will determine whether or not your group succeeds?
Answer: How well your group accomplishes its mission hinges on how qualified the most expert and talented "bug detector" member is and on how well group members share information. If there is only one expert, the team will fulfill its mission providing that: (1) the expert is willing to share his or her information, (2) group members will acknowledge his or her expertise, and (3) process loss doesn't occur (e.g., the most competent member is of low status so no one listens, or people don't listen to one another). To guard against process loss, the group should be sure to take sufficient time for the task within the constraints of the deadline. Further, the group should assign different tasks to different group members and encourage each member to share his or her unique information and perspective on the problem.
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