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Working in teams Student’s name Institutional affiliation Date Introduction In any company its organizational structure normally comprises work groups and teams. This is because nowadays teams have proven to be a popular and significant way of organizing employees in the company. Employees do combine their thoughts perspectives experiences and opinions rather than individualism. With this employees learn and develop integral skills that they can utilize in working towards common goals where employees are accountable mutually for the ultimate outcome whether positive or negative (Katzenbach & Smith 2015). Types of Teams Functional cross-functional and the self-managing teams are three routine ways of managing organizations. First functional teams comprise employees from different vertical levels of the organizational hierarchy whose task is to carry out specific firm function. Under this type of managing organizations members the collaboration and cooperation of teams that improves creativity thereby broadening the perspectives of the members involved. Although working in teams would result in various drawbacks in the case where companies do not focus on creating or maintain their teams the use of work teams in companies has become a consistent routine of managing organization today. References Katzenbach J. R. & Smith D. K. (2015). The wisdom of teams: Creating the high-performance organization. Harvard Business Review Press. Kotlarsky J. van den Hooff B. &Houtman L. (2015). Are we on the same page? Knowledge boundaries and transactive memory system development in cross-functional teams. Communication research 42(3) 319-344. Parker D. W. Holesgrove M. & Pathak R. (2015). Improving productivity with self-organised teams and agile leadership. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management 64(1) 112-128. [...]
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1. Discuss the pros/cons of the three types of teams: functional, cross-functional, self-managed. 2. Think of a potential hypothetical opportunity at your current or former employer to serve an internal or external market (or key customer). Define and describe a hypothetical self-managed team. State the team's purpose, set a major goal, and identify the skill sets, attitudes, and knowledge desired for your team members. Identify the individuals needed for your team - from any department or organizational level (management and/or staff) including external stakeholders. Include a description of the roles for each team member. Should be right around 3 pages! Be sure to use APA and ALWAYS DOUBLE SPACE!
Subject Area: Philosophy
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