...TEAM WORK IN ORGANIZATION DEFINITION A unit of two or more people who interact and coordinates their work to accomplish a specific goal. A small group of people with complementary skills, who work together to achieve a shared purpose and hold themselves mutually accountable for its accomplishment. A team is a group of workers that functions as a unit, often with little or no supervision, to carry out organizational functions. Teamwork The process of people actively working together to accomplish common goals Group Versus Team Team Designated strong leader Individual accountability Same purpose as organization Individual work products Runs efficient meetings Effectiveness by effect on business Delegates work to individuals. Group Rotates leadership Accountable to each other Specific team vision Collective work products Participative meetings Effectiveness by collective work Shares work TYPES OF TEAMS 1.FORMAL TEAM A team created by the organization as part of the formal organization structure. Teams that are officially recognized and supported by the organization for specific purposes. May appear on the organization chart. A functional team is a formally designated work team with a manager or team leader. Three common types of formal team. Horizontal team ...
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...Team Work Angela Meek BUS 318 Instructor Jodi Feikema January 20, 2014 Teams within an organization setting are becoming an increased practice. Teams do many things and contribute much to today’s competitive organizations. There are four primary typed of teams: Problem-Solving Teams, Work Groups, Quality Teams and Virtual Teams. (Uhlig, 2008) In this paper I will describe these different teams, what they are like, and how they work to reach goals. Teams are created within organizations to bring together their top employees that have the skills and knowledge to reach that organization’s specific goals. There are several types of teams used by organizations. Each one is unique in how they work and each one shows how employees working together are more productive than when they work alone to reach certain goals. (Uhlig, 2008) Within an organization that uses teams to reach their goals, there will be formal and informal team structures. Formal teams are structured, have a specific purpose, and are named department, division, or team within an organization. These teams can be temporary or on-going within the organization. (Schemerhorn, Osborn, Uhl-Bien, & Hunt, 2012) Formal teams work based on a hierarchical structure. This means that there is a manager and employees. Organizations that want to lessen the emphasis of hierarchy may change the manager’s title to lead or coach. The employees may be called associates or simply...
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...Team Work Team Work Cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group of persons acting together as a team or in the interests of a common cause .In 1Corinthians 12-30 Paul is teaching us an important lesson about team work and working together. We need teams or someone to work with in almost every aspect of life. Someone once shared an Acronym with me stated, “T”-together, “E”- each one, “A”- achieves, “M”- more. I like the message in this little catch phrase, but it is not the reality of we find within the4 ranks of the Mississippi of Department of Health. There seems to always be tensions so thick that I can see it. Sometimes it seems as if the Employees of the Mississippi Department of Health have forgotten why we are there. Paul tells us that the body has many members but they all have their own role or function in that body. I am a district supervisor for with the WIC program in Mississippi, when I first took the job there seemed to be some type of on going conflict between the warehouses in the health department. They would not have there quarterly meeting together or anything; when I came aboard I made immediate changes, and now they have Christmas dinner. In the healthcare setting we are very consistent with what Paul says in his teachings. In the field of healthcare we are indeed one body with many members. Sometimes the food service staff seems to be looked down on by the nurses. The nurses sometimes treat...
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...There is a saying that many hands make light work. The essence of this statement is that more can be achieved as a collective than individually. There are numerous benefits of teamwork. Here are my top 6. 1. Creativity We all have different skills, knowledge and personal attributes. By utilising all of these different aspects in a team, more ideas can be generated. As more ideas are generated, more creative solutions are generated, leading to better results. 2. Satisfaction Lack of job satisfaction is often one of the key things highlighted in surveys of employees. Individuals working together as a team to achieve a common goal are continually developing. As they interact more energy and enthusiasm is created. When this energy is utilised, it produces results which positively impacts on motivation and leads to even more success. 3. Skills Even the best qualified individual cannot have all of the skills to do everything. Some people excel at coming up with the ideas. Others love the detail while there are those that focus on the big picture. There are others who can be counted on when it comes to implementing and follow through of a plan. The key point is that when a team works together, it has a huge range of skills available that it can utilise to deliver extraordinary results. 4. Speed Imagine that you have a project that needs research, pulling together a proposition, financing it, implementing it and delivering specific benefits. If one person was...
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...Describe a setting in which you have collaborated or interacted with people whose experiences and/or beliefs differ from yours. Address your initial feelings, and how those feelings were or were not changed by this experience. The top 25 students in Texas that were not just invited here, but selected for their involvement with horses. Are to be gathered in this resort in Gainesville to become advocates for the equine industry. I couldn't help but be a bit nervous when I entered the meeting room. Luckily, they were just as ruffled as I was. A man dressed in professional attire asked us to be seated ironically in a horseshoe formation of tables and chairs. We gave him our full on attention. He then interrupted the silence by booming the statement, " you are not important." Tense and speechless we stared at each other with blank expressions. Suddenly his PowerPoint slide moved to the next slide, "why do we need horses," he finally was open for our thoughts. Answers ranged from outrageous Armageddon and overly attached reasons to therapeutic benefits. With my answer of how horses are of cultural and financial importance that they to my family. The different perspectives made me realize, I am surrounded by people that have strong passions for horses. When it came time for us to converse with each other. Conversations included barrel racing times, equitation riding, and then there was me, who have worked with my dad at feed yards checking and shipping cattle. Most of them were unknowledgeable...
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...else's tasks within the company, but if you combine everyone's tasks and put them "together" it resembles a format of segmented information that could be called "teamwork" but really its just a bunch of people doing separate work that's compiled to keep the business going. This being said, I think it depends on what kind business you’re talking about for the idea of team work to be applicable. This being said, in certain select niche fields such as a marketing could benefit from a team of people to bounce creative ideas off of each other in a brainstorming event to come up with a good marketing campaign that would be successful within a target audience in a “quick” manor, that could take an individual significantly longer. Continuing with this example, a marketer could come up with a bad idea, that just seems good to him/her; and another member of the team would hopefully not suffer from group think and would critically analyze the idea to see if it would fit the target audience. Another member of the marketing team could be in charge of doing graphics, like logos, for the project that would be beneficial to the project thus acting as a team. Another member could also be in charge of something like a jingle or a commercial that also would have sub team members under them. In my opinion, a teamwork scenario does not fit into and average business model that one may be apart of; but in certain niche markets like marketing, it could be applicable in that they are all working...
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...Effective Team Work Nathalie Plan SOC/110 Teamwork, Collaboration, and Conflict Resolution Effective Team Work * What are the characteristics of effective teams? The group task role is the group’s ability to focus on a common goal by focusng on certain behaviors that essure that the groups goal will be completed. These roles are all about making sure that group members get along with one another and that everyone coopertaes and works well with one another. The self centered roles are each members’ needs that are placed befre the group’s common goal and other members’ needs. (Engleberg & Wynn) There are twelve group task roles: 1. Initiator – contribuor role usually comes up with ideas and provides leadership to the group 2. Information seeker role usually will be the role of the group making everyone aware that some crucial information may be missing and be asking for facts and figures. 3. Information giver role will be the person that will be researching and organizing the information needed to be able to educate the group. 4. Opinion seeker will be the role that will ask others how they think and feel about an issue that could be affecting the group’s common goal. 5. Opinion giver will be the role that will be stating what they think and they feel and how it can be applied to the group’s common goal. 6. Elaborator role will be the role that helps explains ideas by finding examples to support the group’s common goal. 7. Coordinator...
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...Introduction Doing teamwork is never easy. Different people of various backgrounds come together, frictions are inevitable and conflicts are bound to happen. In the upcoming surveying studio sessions, we are going to work as a team, either to hold a discussion or to do a group work. Before we get started, just like doing any thing else, we have to have a direction. Therefore, we came up with this report. It presents the possible problems that we may encounter in our future groupwork, and we will also provide solutions to each respective problem. In the followings, the problems identified are categorized into three main parts, namely discussion, working after meeting and general problems. Discussion Meeting is an essential element in collaborative work. Through meetings, team members can share their views and opinions on the groupwork. Members can also know more about the strengths and weaknesses of their partners so as to achieve a better division of labour. Besides, meetings can foster communication and understanding among group members which helps to develop a harmonious team spirit and a sense of belongings. (1) Side-tracking In group discussions, we always come up with discussing topics outside the original themes. The reason why side-tracking occurs in discussion is group members are bored with the original topics. The formal format as well as the atmosphere of the meetings often boresteam members especially after the discussion has been going on for a long period...
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... This shift involves increasing the emphasis on the group or team. Many factors are driving this shift. Technology is a primary force as tasks have grown too complex for individuals to tackle alone. In addition, competitive forces have led many organizations to flatten the organization by reducing the numbers of levels of middle managers. Shifting authority and responsibility down to the bottom level allows teams to take over functions that used to be done by management. On a macro scale, as organizations involve multiple businesses, multiple industries and multiple countries, new and complex issues are evolving that rely on numerous interdependent groups with decisions made by teams consisting of members of these various groups. Even without these forces, others have found that harnessing the potential power of the group can have a dramatic effect on productivity and job satisfaction. Today, most organizations embrace the notion of teams. Teams have become the core unit in many organizations. Part of this is based on the fact (and supported by research) that teams are more effective in solving problems and learn more rapidly than individuals. When it is working well, groups or teams can enhance problem solving and creativity, generate understanding, acceptance, support, and commitment. It can also enhance morale, provide an outlet for affiliation, enhance self-esteem, and create consensus and security. A team is defined as a small number of people with complementary skills...
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...of content: 1. Article one : Team management skills 2 1.1 strengths 2 1.2 weakness 3 2. Effective teamwork: practical lessons from organizational research (3rd edition) 3 2.1 strength 4 2.2 weakness 4 3. 12 tips for team building 5 3.1 weakness 5 4. Vital factors for building an effective team 6 4.1 strength 6 Implementation and reflection 6 1. Goals 6 2. Time line 6 3. Implementation 7 4. Reflection 7 1. Article one : Team management skills This article ‘ The management skills - The Core Skills Needed to Manage Your Team’, Mindtools (2014) discuss the some of the key points about how to be a team managers and how to do can thrive and succeed. These range from deciding who does what and how to choosing the right people also to developing , motivating people and with the developing. In addition, this article also cover the most common pitfalls to be avoided. The article is related to the my topics ‘team and teamwork’. However, it is not useful source for my topic due to limited relevance, minimal development of ideas. 1.1 strengths This article is relate to the assessment task on team and team work. Mindtools (2014) notes that doing the team work be a good team leader it is very important and give some main point • Importance of delegation • Motivating • Development team • Communication and work with team Under these four points this article...
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...The Model: Team Work Production Function The Team-Work Production Function is the idea that collectively working on a project or task decreases the amount of work by an individual whilst simultaneously increasing their leisure. The effect of this is an increase in utility experienced by one person. However if everyone acts in a rational manner and everyone maximizes their respective utilities in the same manner then overall the utility is diminished below the original level, or rather the level of a single individual working on the same problem. The Application of the Model: School Projects The Team Work Production function is extremely relevant to students at Cornell University who are often subjected to work on group projects, or study together, or collaborate in any way large or small on differing topics. For the purpose of this paper I will apply the model to a group project in another PAM class. The assignment was to write a 20-page policy paper with four other students over the course of a semester and to formulate a plan that provided solvency to the problem and utilized original research. The group immediately divided the 20-page paper in an egalitarian manner doling out 5 pages each on subtopics however each section of 5 pages was dependent on the section preceding it. The division of labor created a new budget constraint one that reduced work and increased leisure. However as all members of the group realized the same increase in leisure each member had a greater...
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...Intent Mandate: o Comprehend, accept and willingness to work towards the set purpose o Increase fund of information by exchanging views and ideas o Create conducive environment for discussing conflicts and reach a fair resolution o To stay committed to tasks and projects to achieve final objective in set time frame o Maximise on opportunities of learning from team members’ knowledge, confidence, skills and abilities o Put in optimum efforts in producing functional and well-performing final product Team Norms: o Treat each other with dignity and respect practicing and experiencing humility o Listen first to understand without being dismissive of the input received when we listen o Transparency: Avoid hidden agendas, ‘WE’ before ‘I’ o To be prompt, communicative and authentic with each other about ideas, challenges, and feelings o Trust each other and have confidence that issues discussed is for the best of final goal o To make for other members’ weaknesses by being supportive and offering strength o To treat challenges in a way that promotes mutual discussions leading to best solutions My strengths: o Communication skills o Adaptive o Punctual o Reliable o Social o Researcher My weaknesses: o Too detailed o Sweat small stuff o Gullible Process: o Understand the task / project aims and outcomes o Brainstorming and discussions on ideas and suggestions...
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...DESIGNING EFFECTIVE WORK TEAMS Types of Work Teams Most commonly, types of teams can be grouped into self-managed work teams, cross-functional teams, and virtual teams. As mentioned in part one, the authors of Organizational Behaviour define a group as “two or more people interacting interdependently to achieve a common goal” (Saks & Johns, 2014). In other words, a team is a collection of individuals who are interdependent in their tasks, who share responsibility for outcomes, who see themselves and who are seen by others as an intact social entity embedded in one or more larger social systems (for example, business unit or corporation), and who manage their relationships across organizational boundaries. (Sundstrom, De Meuse, & Futrell, 1990). Self-managed work teams are work groups that have the opportunity to do challenging work under reduced supervision. Cross-functional teams are work groups that bring people with different functional specialties together to better invent, design, or deliver a product or service; and virtual teams are work groups that use technology to communicate and collaborate across time, space, and organizational boundaries. (Saks & Johns, 2014). Designing Effective Work Teams According to Johns & Saks, there are three fundamental dimensions to teams functioning effectively: the task, team composition, and management support. (Saks & Johns, 2014). The task is what the team is required to carry out; a task is viewed by team members as a challenge...
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...PROJECT MANAGEMENT AREA 1 I usually receive good support from senior executives for changes that I want to implement. Not at All Rarely Sometimes Often Very Often 2 I create a plan for change for my department and team, and I let other departments deal with the impacts as they choose. Not at All Rarely Sometimes Often Very Often 3 I communicate successes throughout the organization, so that everyone understands the positive impact of a change project. Not at All Rarely Sometimes Often Very Often 4 If the change makes financial and operational sense, then it will work. Not at All Rarely Sometimes Often Very Often 5 If the team is dissatisfied with how something is working or operating right now, change is more likely to be successful. Not at All Rarely Sometimes Often Very Often 6 I try to understand my organization's culture and values as important elements of a change project. Not at All Rarely Sometimes Often Very Often 7 When change is happening, I expect people to continue to perform at 100 percent. Not at...
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