Team Management

Team Management

1. Defintion

   • Team
     • Group of people with different skills and tasks, with a common event.
     • High degree of interdependence
     • Mutual commitment creates synergy, creating greater performance
   • Team Management
     • refers to techniques, processes and tools for organizing and coordinating a group of individuals
     • Common goal

2. Types of Team

   • Functional Team
     • perform specific organizational functions
     • same department
     • composed of a manager and his or her subordinates
   • Cross-functional Teams
     • various departments
     • same hierarchical level with separate areas of expertise work
   • Self-directed Work Team
     • operate without managers
     • none of the members has the authority position
     • designed to give employees a feeling of empowerment and ownership of the assignment.
     • higher job satisfaction, increase in self-esteem.
   • Quality Circles
     • 5 to 15 people
     • The goal of quality circles is to encourage employees to be involve in making decisions that may affect the organisation.
     • increase employees’ participation, encourages communication and trust among the members.
   • Problem-solving Team
     • 5 to 12 employees
     • the same department
     • not given the authority to independently implement their suggested improvements

3. Reasons people join teams

   • Security
   • status
   • Self-esteem
   • Affiliation
   • Power
   • Goal Achievement

4. Advantages & Disadvantage of Team

   • Advantages
     • Mutual support and learning
     • Greater work flexibility with cross training
     • Team commitment stimulates performance and attendance
     • Increase of communication and information exchange
   • Disadvantages
     • Organisation may resist in a change
     • Occurrence of conflict
     • Time consuming for coordination and consensus
     • less flexibility Lin personnel replacement or transfer

5. Benefits of Teamwork

   • Organisation
     • Cost-saving
     • Staff retention increases
     • Staff Turnover reduced
   • Individual
     • Boost employee morale
     • Enhance the power and feeling of satisfaction
     • Establish trust relationships

6. Team Building

   • stages of team development
   • Characteristic of effective team
   • obstacles for effective team performance
   • Barriers to team building