Team Building

Paper Summary:

This paper looks at how many organizations increasingly use teams to oversee various undertakings and projects within the organization. A team is defined as a group of people who have complementary skills, a higher commitment to common goals, and a higher degree of interdependency and interaction. It explores how a team setup can help motivate and improve the productivity of the employees within the organization. It also examines how teams need good structure and guidelines, however, if the team has to work effectively, and how it is important to ensure that every team works jointly towards maximum profit for the product.

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Effective Decision-Making Strategies to Use When Working With Groups
Guidelines for Consensus Building
How Do Leaders Build Teams?

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"Most teams generally utilize five levels of decision-making: command, consult, majority, consensus and unanimity. It is easy to understand that these decision types are very closely related to the time factors teams may have in arriving at a decision. When the command type of decision-making process is used, the team leader identifies the tasks at hand and designates responsibilities to all the team members. This type of decision-making can be accomplished in the shortest possible time, it however has a major drawback. It will be difficult for the team leader to get buy in for the task from the team members of the team members do not agree with the decision made. Unanimity, on the other hand, ensures that all members like and accept the decision, they have to "buy-in" to the decision."

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