Support your position by discussing goals, roles, ground rules, norms, and characteristics your team or group displayed. How did these characteristics affect the team’s or group’s ability to accomplish its purpose and solve the problem it encountered? • Analyze how communication contributed to cohesiveness. Identify and address how diversity or technology affected the team or group members’ ability to communicate with one another to reach a resolution. • Explain your thoughts on how goals, roles, ground rules, and norms help determine effectiveness.
Assessment activity 1: Consult team members to establish a common understanding of team purpose, roles, responsibilities and accountabilities in accordance with organizational goals, plans and objectives 1. Describe what differentiates a group of people from a team. A group of people does not necessarily constitute a team. A team is a group of people who work together and are collectively responsible and accountable for the defined task, segment, process, product, or service. 2.
• Describe the stages of an established model of group formation • Explain how a manager could benefit from knowing team members preferred roles as defined in an established team role model Section 1 – Understand how to develop and maintain effective working relationships You should provide your own understanding of how to develop and maintain effective working relationships by providing responses to the assessment criteria using, whenever appropriate, examples from a team situation with which you are familiar. 1.1 Explain the benefits of effective working relationships in developing and maintaining the team (20 marks) Effective working relationships are paramount to developing and maintaining effective teams. Teams need time and space to progress and establish interpersonal working relationships. These relationships between peers and leaders have to be positive, trustworthy and communicative to be effective and enhance performance. Leaders have to set the standard by being empathic, supportive and use a range of different leadership styles to develop and maintain the team, they also have be fair and consistent, as workers that feel they are unfairly treated by a manager will not show loyalty and will do the minimum.
Building an organization by grouping jobs into work units and allocating resources C. Identifying business functions and mobilizing leaders D. Being flexible and responsive towards customer needs and the competitive environment Correct! The correct answer is: D. A dynamic organization is, “flexible and adaptive, particularly in response to competitive threats and customer needs” (Bateman & Snell, 2011, p.16). 15. For today’s managers, the organizing function requires a higher focus on which of the following? A.
Organizations and businesses that promote teamwork create environments that lead groups to greater productivity, creativity, and a feeling of ownership (Finch, 2007). Developing effective teams and groups would begin with setting a clear goal that communicates the clarity of a common purpose and direction. Teams that pursue one goal at a time increase their chances of success than teams that have several agendas in place at the same time. A manager should consider the skills a team member brings to the table when putting a team together. In addition, they should group the team members according to their specific skills, and play the role needed to accomplish a particular project.
Productive and Counterproductive Behaviors Paper By: Stephanie Wilcox Instructor: Sally D. Williams PHD. PSY/428 If this paper I will define productive behavior and counterproductive behavior, describe the impact that productive and counterproductive behaviors have on job performance and the overall performance of an organization and recommend strategies to increase productive behavior and decrease counterproductive behavior in organizations. Productive workplace behaviours is defined as any intentional behaviour on the part of an organization member viewed by the organization to be aimed at its legitimate interests. Productive workplace behaviors include such things as working effectively as a team player, such as making helpful comments during discussions, taking notes to organize efforts , exhibiting aggressive attention to detail, exhibiting constant and effective creative thinking and exhibiting leadership. In terms of time management, productive behaviour includes skillful time management skills.
Also will need to establish the productivity measures and compare those with the company or organization figures. Lastly, the manager will need to have a team meeting; take contribution on achieving the goals set by the manager, and institute a common goal for the teams. The transformational leadership style will work for the restructuring strategy with the new management practices, because the teams are mature and under the strong leadership of new management. In order to allow the new transformational leadership to be effective, one will have to recognize critical competencies, educate their employees, and motivate, empower, and encourage the teams to facilitate them to focus on accomplishing their goals effectively. It is important to engage the employees in the critical thinking process, decision making process and setting a common subsidiary goal that will be able to help the specialists to merge well with the existing teams.
Organizational Chart and Structure Nur/492 Introduction The classical theory consists of organizational design that subdivides work and specifies tasks. The classical theory allows the different departments to run with efficiency by giving staff members different task to perform. The classical theory is composed of four elements: division and specialization of labor, chain of command, organizational structure, and span of command. Division and specialization of labor reduces the workload of the employee that will increase proficiency throughout the organization. The chain of command is authority, power, and responsibility delegated from high levels of authority
Importance of Teams John Wilkerson HCS/325 9/4/2013 Augustus Scarlato Importance of Teams According to Darrington (n.d.), "Employees must often work together as a team when working, often to achieve the goals of the company. Teamwork is extremely important in the workplace” (para. 1). The definition of the word team is an assembly of people who are united to accomplish a common goal. A great team builds rapport, improves motivation, increases problem-solving skills, and improves coordination efficiency amongst the members.
They work in unison to devise a plan of action to pursue the goal, they assign specific positions and tasks to individuals, and utilize each one’s input within the plan as to how to attain their common goal timely and efficiently. Alison Taylor gives a look into team formation in her article, and poses the question, “Are teams just another management fad? Many of those researching and writing about teams go to some lengths to point out why this isn’t the case. Teams, they argue, are consistent with the philosophy of total quality and other change initiatives; teams replace traditional and ineffective organizational hierarchies; teams integrate the ideas of empowerment and involvement, enabling employees to perform to their potential. And finally, the arguments go, teams are helping organizations to improve competitiveness and increase productivity” (para.