In his seminar on Organizational Economics, Professor Chang always uses study teams for presentation of outside research materials. He has found that three students per team tend to work well. Walking into a new class, he finds that registration has allowed 60 students to sign up. He decides to increase the team size from three to eight students. What problems can he expect to deal with during the semester?

What will be an ideal response?

Chang is likely to hear more student complaints about free riders in some teams. Teams might also wrestle harder with decisionmaking; it may take more time for them to complete the work even though there are more team members to share the work.