DEVELOPING AND
MANAGING EFFECTIVE TEAMS
Teams aren’t
automatically going to magically perform at high levels. We need to look more
closely at how managers can develop and manage effective teams.
There are eight
characteristics associated with effective teams.
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Clear
goals
v
Relevant
skills
v
Mutual
trust
v
Unified
commitment
v
Good
communication
v
Negotiating
skills
v
Appropriate
leadership
v
Internal
and external support
WHAT’S INVOLVED
WITH MANAGING TEAMS?
v
In
planning, it’s important that teams have clear goals and that these goals be
clear to and accepted by every member of the team.
v
Organizing
tasks associated with managing a team include clarification of authority and
structural issues.
v
Leading
issues include such things as determining what role the leader will play, how
conflict will be handled, and what the best communication process is.
v
Two
important controlling issues include how to evaluate the team’s performance and
how to reward team members
One popular
approach to group incentive plans is gain-sharing, which is a program
that shares the gains of the efforts of group members with those group members.
In conclusion, a
TEAM is a temporary or ongoing task group whose members are charged with
working together to identify problems, form a consensus about what should be
done, and implement necessary actions in relation to a particular task or
organizational area.
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