BM Unit 2 HRM: Team Motivation

• Business Studies
• Secondary Education

Instructions

Watch the video and answer the multple-choice self-assessment questions.

You will not be graded and get immediate feedback.

Good luck!

00:30

Social loafing effect: when you put people in teams to pull on a rope, they tend to decrease their effort proportional to team size.

1. True
2. False

01:28

When teams are not performing, the first goals is usually to:

1. Make sure everybody turns up on time
2. Increase engagement
3. Find a better team leader
4. Decrease team size

02:45

The first 3 steps to improve team performance are 1) have a team contract signed 2) stand & deliver and:

1. Short frequent meetings
2. Avoid delays
3. Long meetings
4. Better leadership

03:47

The teams that performed better had

1. Signed a contract
2. Sat down rather than stand up
3. Held more meetings
4. Direct contact with the beneficiaries of the project

Good work!

Now you know some simple steps you can take to improve team performance.