Understanding work team
- 1. UNDERSTANDING WORK TEAM E F F O R T S BY : - M O H I T K U M A R R A I
- 2. WHY HAVE TEAMS BECOME SO POPULAR? • More effective and efficient • Better way of employee talents utilization • Flexible and responsive to change • Quick assemble, deploy, refocus and disband
- 5. PROBLEM-SOLVING TEAMS • Work for few hours in a day or fortnightly. • People discussed problems. • Make suggestions and advices to improve work process and methods • Not have authority to implement their decisions. • Make presentation before management. Example:- Quality circle
- 6. SELF-MANAGED WORK TEAMS • Improved version of problem-solving teams. • Performs highly related or interdependent jobs and assume many roles. • Includes planning and scheduling of work, assigning tasks to the members, collective control. • Self monitoring the pace of work, making operational decisions, taking actions. • Mutually evaluate members performance.
- 7. CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TEAMS • Have different background. • Provide their expert services. • Once assignment is over the teams get dissolved. • Solve the problem, also called “task force” • Membership is temporary
- 8. VIRTUAL TEAMS • Work together to achieve common goals. • Allow people to collaborate online. • Virtual do everything other teams do. – Communicate and share information. – Make decision making. – Complete tasks • From same organizations.
- 11. CONTEXT • Adequate resources • Leadership and structure • Climate of trust • Performance evaluation and reward systems
- 12. COMPOSITION • Abilities of members • Personality • Allocation roles • Diversity • Size of teams • Member flexibility • Member preference
- 13. PROCESS • Common purpose • Specify goals • Team efficacy • Conflict levels • Social loafing
- 15. TURNING INDIVIDUALS INTO TEAM PLAYERS Selecting Training Rewardin g
- 16. BEWARE! TEAMS AREN’T ALWAYS THE ANSWER • The nature of complexity of the task will provide the answer? • Does the work generates common goals and objectives leading to possible synergy? • Is the work or task need interdependent?