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Understanding WorkTeams

Presented By:09020241046-50


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Parameter Work Group Work Team

Goal Focus on individual goals Focus on team goals

Activity Share information and

perspectives

Discussion, decision

making, problemsolving, and planning

Accountability Individual Individual and mutual

Synergy Neutral(generally) Positive

Skills Random, varied Complementary

Product/Outcome

Individual work products Team work products

Leader , ,Purpose goals approach towork shaped by manager

Purpose, goals,approach to workshaped by team leaderwith team membersConcerns With outcomes of

everyone and challenges

the team faces

With outcomes of

everyone andchallenges the teamfacesRoles and

responsibilities

Define individual roles,responsibilities, and tasks

,Define individual roles,responsibilities and

tasks to help team do;its work often share and

rotate them


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Types of Teams


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Self Managed Teams

Groups of 10 15 peoplewho take on theresponsibilities of theirformer supervisors.

More independent ascompared to problem

solving teams

Include employeemembers performing

related orinterde endent obs.


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Self Managed Teams

Tasks include :Planning and scheduling workAssigning tasks to membersMaking operating decisionsTaking action on problems

Fully self managed teams select their ownmembers and evaluated teams members

It leads to better employee satisfaction butplagued by higher absenteeism andturnover rates


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Cross Functional Teams

Employees from the samehierarchical level but fromdifferent work areas

Used widely today successfullyby many organizations

Effective means for peoplefrom diverse areas toexchange information,develop ideas and solveproblems

Often lead to brainstormingsessions leading to


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Cross Functional Teams

Difficult to handle

Efforts have to be made

towards developingtrust and buildingteamwork.

Used effectively bycompanies like Boeing,IBM, Toyota and Harley-

Davidson to name a


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Virtual Teams

Teams using technologyto tie togetherphysically dispersedmember in order to

achieve a commongoal.

Use communication

links like WAN, videoconferencing or email

Technology makes

world a smaller placeto live in everyday


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A Team-Effectiveness

Model


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Creating Effective Teams


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Creating Effective Teams(contd)


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Key Roles of Teams


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Effects of Group Processes

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M IN U S

=

:G o a lMaximize Process Gains While

!M in im izin g P ro ce ss Lo sse s


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Creating Effective Teams:Diversity

G rou p D em og rap h yTh e d eg ree to w h ich m em b ers of a g rou p sh are a

, , ,com m on d e m o g rap h ic attrib u te su ch a s ag e sex

, ,ra ce e d u ca tio n a l le v e l o r le n g th o f service in th e

,o rg a n iza tio n a n d th e im p a ct o f th is a ttrib u te o n

turnover

C oh o rts

,In d ivid u a ls w h o a s p a rt o f,a group hold a common

a ttrib u te


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Turning Individuals Into

Team PlayersThe Challenge

National Culture : Individualistic

Organizations : Historically ValueIndividual Achievement


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Shaping Team Players

Selection

Training

Rewards


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Team Player Centric Rewards @Accenture

Rewards

Celebrating Performance

Performance Appraisal

Bonus based on team performance

Smile Cards


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Better ?????

A collection of people is not a team, though

they may learn to function in that way Every Individual has its own personality

characteristics and traits

Teams are only as good as their weakest link

A weak link in a team can hamper the Effective

work that could have been done.


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Me is ME Every Employee has

specific strengths andtraits which can beput very effectively to useif work given to him/herIndividually.
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Me is ME

Instead of Team discussions andconcluding to a Decision .IndividualDecisions are much Result Oriented.

Pooled interdependence exists whenteam members may workindependently and simply combinetheir efforts to create the teamsoutput.

Exists when team members may work

independently and simply combinetheir efforts to create the teams out ut


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But How do we Know WhenAlone and when NOT .

Individual Work when Privacy is needed

High Performance required

Highly motivated and skilled person

Task Independence

When a large Task is to be done. Team isImportant

Team-based or anizations have more


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THERE IS ONLY

ONE CEO in acompany

...NOT TWO


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BUT.TWO ARE ALWAYS

BETTER THANONE.

AND WE ALL KNOW
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EAM IS ALWAYS BETTER THANK YOU
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