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Chapter 10
Outsourcing teamwork
• Can improve teamwork, team diversity,
maximize resource usage, enhance creativity,
improve speed and reduce costs
• Can also harm teamwork by making
cooperation and communication more difficult
and reducing trust
Differentiation of Team and Groups
Team Groups
• Integral part of the • defined as two or more
persons interacting and
management process interdependent
• Refers to people or animals • Formal Group
organized to work together • Informal Group
• Interacts primarily to share
• Emphasize shared information and to make
leadership, mutual decision to help each
accountability, and member perform within
the are of responsibility
collective work products
• Emphasizes individual
leadership, accountability
and work products
Job Categories
Conventional Work
Issue Teams
Groups
ENHANCEMENTS Flexibility
Costs of teams
• Are usually expressed in terms of the difficulty
of changing team-based organization
Types of teams
• Quality Circles
• Work Teams
• Problem Solving Teams
• Management Teams
• Product Development Teams
• Virtual Teams
Implementing Teams in Organizations
• Planning Change
• Making the Decision
• Preparing for Implementation
• Phases of Implementation
– Start up
– Reality and Unrest
– Leader – Centered Teams
– Tightly Formed Teams
– Self – Managing Teams
Essential Team Issues
• Team Performance
• Start at the Top
Potential Team Problems
• Changing Membership
• Social Loafing