Technical Memorandum Number 784R On Interdependence and Modularity: How to Divide a Team
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This research addresses how worker interdependence combined with individual performances affect management’s decision on how to modularize an organizational team that is evolving over time through replacements. A mathematical model is developed for determining how individual and team performances change when a team is split. Through computer simulations, managerial insights are provided on three fundamental decisions pertaining to dividing a team: (a) when to divide a team in terms of the team’s “maturity,” (b) how many workers to put on each team, and (c) which workers should move to the new team. With regard to the first of these decisions, the number of pre-division replacements is used as a measure of team maturity. Computer simulations are used to compare the short-term and long-term effectiveness of two team-splitting policies for determining which workers are assigned to the two new sub-teams.
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