Mark, David, Tia, and Ashley are team members in a computer programming class. They have been assigned the task of creating a co
mputerized payroll system. Mark and Tia worked very hard and created programs that worked well. David and Ashley, however, did not work as hard as they could and created programs with numerous errors. This resulted in a payroll system which could not be implemented. The team's poor performance that was a result of David and Ashley not doing their best can be termed as______________. A. groupthink.
B. synergy.
C. social facilitation.
D. hierarchical sensitivity.
E. motivational loss.
The team's poor performance that was a result of David and Ashley not doing their best can be termed as groupthink.
A. groupthink.
<u>Explanation:</u>
To generate payroll system task been as four member (David, Mark Tia, and Ashley) team, when TIA and Mark worked and completed the payroll task. At same time David and Ashley did not work hard to complete task payroll generation system.
Both David and Ashley not understand the program or group thinking is not done.
So it is groupthink is not done by David and Ashley properly. At same time MARK AND TIA able complete means groupthink done properly.
