Team Building and Conflict Resolution

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses the importance of teamwork and team-building and provides the history of team development. The paper explains that if any conflict exists among employees, this will become a barrier in reaching the company's desired strategies. The paper examines conflict resolution that can be addressed through team efforts that lead to increased communication, consensus decisions and positive results. The paper discusses the role of a leader in managing conflict in a positive way and in building strong, successful teams.

Outline:
Introduction
History of Team Development
Conflict Resolution
Building Effective Teams
Types of Internal Conflicts
Leadership and Communication
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"The interactions of small groups have been of interest to social psychologists for sometime. However, it has only been in recent years that they began to look at teams and how they function within the organizational setting. The term "sociometry" first appeared in the Psychological Abstracts index in 1940 with references to the work of individuals such as psychiatrist Jacob Levi Moreno, and the term "group dynamics" was listed in 1945 with reference to the work of Kurt Lewin and his colleagues. The first use of "small groups" and "group interaction" was in 1950 in conjunction of researchers such as Robert Bale."

Sample of Sources Used:

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• Fisher, Roger and William Ury. Getting To Yes, Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. New York: Penguin Books, 1991

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