Teams and Teamwork Team Two or more people

Teams and Teamwork

Team Two or more people who interact with and influence each other toward a common purpose

Formal and Informal • Formal teams are created deliberately by managers and charged with carrying out specific tasks to help the organization achieve its goals • Informal teams emerge whenever people come together and interact regularly

Types of formal teams • Command team A team composed of a manager and the employees that report to that manager • Committee A formal organizational team, usually relatively longlived, related to carry out specific organizational tasks • Task force or project team A temporary team formed to address a specific problem

Function of Informal team • They maintain and strengthen the norms (expected behaviors) and values their members hold in common • They give members feelings of social satisfaction, status and security • Informal groups help their members communicate • Informal group help to solve problems • Informal group can act reference group

High performance team or super team Group of 3 to 30 workers drawn from different areas of a corporation who get together to solve the problems that workers deal with daily

Self Managed Teams “Team that manage themselves without any formals supervision”

Characteristic • The team has responsibility for a relatively whole task • Team members each possess a Varity of task related skills • The team has the power to determine such things as work methods, scheduling and assignment of members to different tasks • The performance of the group as a whole is the basis for compensation and feedback

Organization chart participative or self managed organization Support team Technical service team Plant operating Teams

Characteristic of Teams • Leadership Roles • Leadership Norms • Leadership Cohesiveness

Leadership roles • • • Stages of team development Forming Storming Norming Performing Adjourning

Leader Cohesiveness • • “The degree of solidarity and positive feelings held by individuals towards their group” Components Introduce competitions Increase interpersonal attraction Increase interaction Create common goals and common fates

Contd…. • Task Interdependence The extent to which a group’s work requires its members to interact with one another • Sense of potency Collective belief a group that it can be effective • Outcome independence The degree to which the work of a group has consequences felt by all its members

Focusing teams of performance • • Skills Commitment Accountability = Performance results

Focusing on Team Basics • Skills – Problem solving – Technical function – Interpersonal • Commitment – Special goals – Common approach – Meaningful purpose

Contd… • Accountability – Mutual – Small number of people – Individual • = Performance result

Overcome the conflict Paradoxical aspects v Identify v Disclosure v Trust v Individuality v Authority v Regression v Creativity