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Impact of Formal Rules on Team Collaboration

A manager of a software development team observes that her team members are naturally collaborating, sharing code, and helping each other solve problems. To encourage this behavior further, she introduces a formal system with strict rules for collaboration, including mandatory daily check-ins and a point-based reward system for 'cooperative actions'. Analyze the potential negative consequences of this new, externally imposed system on the team's existing cooperative spirit. In your analysis, explain the psychological mechanism that might cause this 'crowding out' effect.

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