TEAM CONTRACT: ___________________________(Group Number)

Objective: To develop the roles and responsibilities of individuals and the team to support the management of your team throughout the semester.

Background: Your team will be responsible for completing a team project this semester which requires developing and doing a major fundraising event along with 2 presentations and a final report. Each student will be entering in a performance contract with your team members. This document outlines this contract and provides a means for managing your team performance. To develop this team contract team members will need to negotiate team expectations by developing a shared understanding of how your team will be expected to function.

To be effective, all members must explicitly agree to a set of norms for team behavior and procedures to address behaviors that fall outside the norms. Without a shared understanding, some members’ expectations may not be met, leading them to become disillusioned and de-motivated. As a result, team effectiveness will likely be diminished.

Work teams often run into problems such as, members “free-riding,” failing to show up for or being late for meetings, failing to complete work, submitting work late, submitting work that doesn’t meet other members’ quality standards, and failing to communicate enough or appropriately in and outside of meetings. If/when you encounter these type of problems down the road, you will use the contract to address the problems and improve team functioning. Also, if developed properly and used to manage the team, the contract will prevent many problems from occurring in the first place.

Each member must have a copy and a signed copy is to be submitted to me at the beginning of class on Tuesday, September 28, 2008.

Part A: ____________________________(name)

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