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How Transparency Helps Teams

Amin
May 15, 2014

How Transparency Helps Teams

Exploring two phenomenas in team dynamics:

1. Social Loafing
2. Tacit Knowledge

These two phenomenas are often subconsciously governing team dynamics yet is overlooked for various reasons. This slides highlights how reducing or increasing either phenomenas benefit your team.

Amin

May 15, 2014
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  1. The case forTransparency 1. Why Teams Are Lazy? The case

    for social loafing 2. What makes an excellent employee The case for tacit knowledge
  2. Year: 1913 Maximilian Ringelmann, a French engineer studied the performance

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  3. x 49% If: 8 horses x x 49% x x

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  4. Why does this happen? Social Loafing: In the social psychology

    of groups, social loafing is the phenomenon of people deliberately/subconciously exerting less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when they work alone.
  5. Attribution and equity/ Matching of effort If someone feels that

    others in the group are slacking or that others will slack, he will lower his effort to match that of the others
  6. “Sucker” Effect/Aversion People feel that others in the group will

    leave them to do all the work while they take the credit. Because people do not want to feel like the "sucker," they wait to see how much effort others will put into a group before they put any in.
  7. Increase Team Transparency Reduce Social Loafing • Increase identifiability •

    Promote involvement • Reward team members for performance • Strengthen team cohesion • Increase personal responsibility • Use team contracts • Provide team performance reviews and feedback
  8. Companies make huge investments in staff trainings. In the US

    alone, close to $80 billion worth of trainings were spent and yet there are no certain ROI that businesses gained from this investment. Is this investment really necessary?
  9. In the business world, this is the knowledge that explains

    why some experienced staff just know what to do and say at the right moment of time and situation. What is tacit knowledge? In effect, tacit knowledge is what differentiates between an excellent and a mediocre employee.
  10. Dr. Edward Rogers, Chief Knowledge Officer at NASA’s Goddard Space

    Flight Center Two ways for tacit knowledge to be transferred (1) Allow employees to observe more experienced colleagues People learn by watching others. It is important for a new employee to observe how his colleague handles something, what is the thinking process underlying it, what actions produce good consequences etc. (2) Allow employees to have a shared context Sometimes you may try to teach a person something, but if he is not in the same context or unaware of the discussions or thinking process that took place, they it will still be hard to transfer tacit knowledge.
  11. Dr. Edward Rogers, Chief Knowledge Officer at NASA’s Goddard Space

    Flight Center Increase Team Transparency Helps in Transfer of Tacit Knowledge
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    we designed qiscus in rooms. This allows you to be an active participant contributing to the rooms. It also allows you be an observer, to keep yourself updated quickly in real time. Project 1 Project 2 Project 3 Div Heads Room Observer Observer Observer Participant Observer Participant
  13. qiscus engineers tacit knowledge transfer A better organizational awareness helps

    your teams learn from each other, organically and scalably without much need to meet or converse. Simply by keeping with the messages, you’ll be amazed at how much organic learning occurs. Project 1 Observer Project 1 Observer Project 1 Observer
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