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As a form of collaborative learning, allowing students to engage in teamwork has been attributed to the retention of information, motivation, critical reasoning, communication and social skills among others (Hansen, 2006). However, is the use of teamwork always the right technique? The benefits outlined are dependent on the success of the teamwork initiative, which is not guaranteed (Holtham et al., 2006; Eva, 2002). Ineffective student teams can experience numerous problems including role confusion, low trust, clashing personalities and the social loafing phenomenon, where certain members of the group do not participate fully (Burdett, 2003; Hansen, 2006). Researchers have attempted to prevent such problems using pedagogical interventions with varying degrees of success (Pieterse and Thompson, 2010; Hardy and Crace, 1997). The team signatory code is among these tactics considered, a governance …