The Vice President of Biomedics Inc. is trying to decide on the composition of a new product development team. If she chooses members who are from multiple functional areas in the firm, which of the following is likely to be one of the disadvantages she is likely to experience? a. Increase in instances of whistle-blowingb. Increase in communication and coordination costsc. Lesser cross-fertilization of ideasd. Lesser instances of social loafing

B) Increase in communication and coordination costs

Explanation:

If the team includes members of different functional areas or departments, e. g. finance, marketing and manufacturing, they will have to learn to coordinate with one another.

Each team member usually works only with people from their own area or eventually some other related area, e. g. sales people communicate fluidly with inventory managers.

They will also need to make some time between their normal activities and sometimes that is not easy since individual schedules are not the same.