Examples of Task processes in the following topics:
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- In the execution of a task, hierarchical organizations usually have different levels of task processes.
- Departmentalization is the process of grouping individuals into departments and grouping departments into total organizations.
- Team - departmentalization by teams of people brought together to accomplish specific tasks
- Centralization increases consistency in the processes and procedures that employees use in performing tasks.
- Centralization allows for rapid, department-wide decision-making; there is also less duplication of work because fewer employees perform the same task.
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- Furthermore, according to Cox and Hopkins (2006), it is Clay's belief that children construct their own understanding of the reading process and in addition, bring a wealth of prior knowledge to the task.
- First, reading and writing are connected processes and should be performed in conjunction with each other.
- Second, children learn how to read and write by participating in authentic reading and writing tasks on continuous texts (Cox & Hopkins, 2006).
- These learners use strategies in order to solve problems quickly in both reading and writing tasks.
- Such readers and writers learn more about both processes each time they participate in reading and writing tasks.
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- While the substance of the tasks involved in teamwork may vary from team to team, there are three processes that are common to how teamwork gets done: the transition process, action processes, and interpersonal processes.
- During each of these processes, specific sets of activities occur.
- Monitoring milestones and goals: tracking progress toward completion of tasks and activities
- Coordination: organizing and managing the flow of team activities and tasks
- Interpersonal processes include activities that occur during both the transition and action processes.
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- Serial memory processing compares a memory to a target stimulus, while parallel processing carries out multiple operations simultaneously.
- Serial memory processing is the act of attending to and processing one item at a time, while parallel memory processing is the act of attending to and processing all items simultaneously.
- In short-term memory tasks, participants are given a set of items (e.g. letters, digits) one at a time and then, after varying periods of delay, are asked for recall of the items.
- Parallel processing is the ability to carry out multiple operations or tasks simultaneously.
- In parallel processing, the brain simultaneously processes incoming stimuli of differing quality.
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- It involves the assignment of tasks, the grouping of tasks into departments, and the assignment of authority and allocation of resources across the organization.
- The efforts of the operatives are coordinated to allow the process at hand to function correctly.
- The organization divides the entire work and assigns the tasks to individuals in order to achieve the organizational objectives; each one has to perform a different task and tasks of one individual must be coordinated with the tasks of others.
- Collecting these tasks at the final stage is called integration.
- Organization is a never ending process.
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- Attention can be thought of as the allocation of limited processing resources.
- Think of a computer with limited memory storage: you can only give it so many tasks before it is unable to process more.
- Each task increases cognitive load; attention
must be divided among all of the component tasks to perform them.
- This research reveals that the human attentional system has limits to what it
can process: driving performance is worse while engaged in other tasks; drivers
make more mistakes, brake harder and later, get into more accidents, veer into
other lanes, and are less aware of their surroundings when engaged in the
previously discussed tasks.
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people can process multiple stimuli with practice.
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- It is particularly useful for projects that have interdependent steps and/or processes.
- This includes a list of tasks and the time (duration) that each task should take to complete, and the sequence of and dependencies between tasks (such as "Step A has to be finished before moving to step B").
- They can determine which tasks need to be completed first and how much time can be spent on those tasks before they delay other parts of the project.
- The cumulative process of transforming various independent efforts into an interdependent value-added proposition is often complex; CPM/PERT charts allow project managers to visualize tasks chronologically.
- Outline business processes within project management utilizing the critical path method (CPM) as a control function and diagram projects within project management using the program evaluation review technique (PERT) chart
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- Management is tasked with both creating culture and accurately communicating it across the organization.
- While it is too simplistic to say that culture is a top-down communicative process, there is relevance to the idea that culture generally begins with the founders of the organization and the values they emphasize in the organizational growth and hiring process.
- Some of the most critical of these are structure, hierarchy, mission and vision statements, employee handbooks, hiring processes, and employee training and initiation.
- Human resource professionals are tasked with identifying candidates with culturally consistent perspectives and with underlining the importance of cultural considerations in interviews and on-boarding processes.
- This organization triangle illustrates the idea that structure, process, and the people involved all contribute to the culture of an organization.
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- Task behavior concerns the actions required of followers and how they should be conducted.
- The leader instructs the followers on how, what, where, and when to do a certain task.
- This is primarily task behavior.
- S2 leading is still primarily task behavior, but now it includes some relationship behavior.
- Decisions involve a lot of input from the followers, and the process and responsibility now lie with followers.
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- A virtual team is a temporary group created to accomplish specific tasks by using technology to collaborate remotely.
- A virtual team is a group of individuals in different geographic locations who use technology to collaborate on work tasks and activities.
- Parallel teams are highly task-focused and draw on individuals from different functional areas and locations.
- While they generally complete their work on a defined schedule, parallel teams may not be disbanded but may instead remain to take on a subsequent set of tasks.
- They may be formed to develop new products, deliver a new technology system, or redesign operational processes.