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Task interdependence

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, task interdependence means: The extent to which people or units need one another's work or contributions to complete their own tasks.

In Turkish: görevler arası bağımlılık

How it is used

Discuss whether contributions are pooled, flow sequentially or require repeated mutual adjustment.

Example sentences

  1. High task interdependence meant that design and production had to revise the prototype together.

    Work requires reciprocal adjustment rather than separate completion of isolated tasks.

  2. The branches had limited task interdependence, although their results contributed to one group target.

    Separate contributions can be pooled without a continuous exchange of unfinished work.

Common collocations

  • high task interdependence
  • manage task interdependence
  • delegateTo give part of your work, responsibility or decision-making power to someone else, usually a person in your team, while still checking that the result is achieved.
  • alignmentA state in which teams, goals and actions support the same strategy and priorities, so that different parts of an organisation work in the same direction.

More terms: Delegation and Accountability

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