The nurse manager has been asked to assemble several groups to work on tasks to improve the unit's performance and client satisfaction scores. This manager would put the fewest people in a group working on which type of task?
1. Additive
2. Disjunctive
3. Divisible
4. Conjunctive
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Rationale 1: In an additive task, the group performance depends on the sum of individual performances, so the more members, the better.
Rationale 2: In a disjunctive task, the group succeeds if one member succeeds, so more members give a better chance for one person to succeed.
Rationale 3: A divisible task is one that can be broken down into subtasks with division of labor, so more people provide a greater opportunity for specialization and interdependence in performing the task.
Rationale 4: In a conjunctive task, the group succeeds only if all of the members succeed, so it makes more sense to have fewer members on the team. However, the members should be highly qualified for the work.
Global Rationale:
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