Question

Quality Timber Pty Ltd is a well-established logging company. With below-average performance, their packaging department is consistently behind schedule. Employees often take long lunch breaks and frequently stop to chat with co-workers. However, the employees get along very well and frequently spend time together, even outside work. In this scenario, the performance norms are _____ and cohesiveness is _____, so productivity is ____.

Answer 1

Answer:

Quality Timber Pty Ltd

In this scenario, the performance norms are _below-average____ and cohesiveness is _ high____, so productivity is _low___.

Explanation:

It has been established that group norms influence individual behavior and group performance.  Performance Norms refer to how a person should work in a given group and what his or her output should be.

Cohesion, according to wikipedia.com, "can be more specifically defined as the tendency for a group to be in unity while working towards a goal or to satisfy the emotional needs of its members."  Employees of the packaging department tend to be enjoying so much group cohesiveness.  But, they need to break some habits to focus on achieving corporate goals by increasing their productivity.

According to Paul Krugman of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, "Productivity is commonly defined as a ratio between the output volume and the volume of inputs.  In other words, it measures how efficiently production inputs, such as labour and capital, are being used in an economy to produce a given level of output."  A rough assessment of the packaging department employees' performance shows low productivity, as they are "consistently behind schedule and take long lunch breaks, and frequently chat with co-workers," instead of concentrating on their jobs.