Team Building and Group Dynamic

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TEAM BUILDING AND GROUP

DYNAMIC

A team is a small no of people with

complementary skills who are committed to a

common purpose, common performance goals,and an approach for which they hold

themselves mutually accountable.


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Differences between groups and

teams

groups

1.leadership; formally

established

2.accountabiity; individual

3 performance;sum of

individual output

4. orientation; comman goal

teams

1.Shared ones

2.Shared and individual

3.Collective

4.Comman commitment


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Benefits from team

Better quality of work life, reduced stress

Enhanced performance

Reduced scrap, fewer errors

Reduced turnover, reduced absenteeism, costreduction

Teams result in better quality decision

Teams results in improved processes

Team work contributes to global competitivenessTeam benefit management through

organisational enhancement


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Types of teams

teams

Work teams

Problem

solving

teams

Management

teams

Virtual teams


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Implementing teams in organisation

1. Planning the change

2. Making the decision

3. Implementing the decision


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Team issues

teams

performance

tqm

leadership

reinvigorating


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Effective team work

Cooperation

Trust

Communication Support

Respect

Fairness Leadership in teams


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Typical teams in organisations

Quality circles: these are small teams of

employees who meet for a few hours each week

to identify quality and productive problems,propose solutions to management and monitor

the implementation and consequences of these

solutions in their work area. Ex; Mahindra andMahindra, BHEL, BEL


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Self managed teams

Also called as empowered teams, ex; reliance,

titan, phillips.etc

Characteristics of self directed teams are,

1. They plan, control and improve their own workprocesses

2. They set their own goals and inspect their ownwork

3. Create their own schedule4. Prepare their own budget


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Group dynamics

Meaning

A collection of two or more interacting

individuals with a stable pattern of relationshipsbetween them who share common goals and

who perceive themselves as being a group.


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Group characteristics

interaction

members

Two or

more

people

Sharedgoals


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Types of groups

Formal

group

Task, standing task

Friendship,interest,

reference

In or out In group

Out group

Change of

memership

Closed group

Open group


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Formal and informal groups

Formal group

It is deliberately created to perform a specific

task.

Members are appointed by the organisation

Hierarchy of authority exists.ex:research and

development, management team, etc.

2 types, standing task group, a task group


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1.Standing task group also called as command

group, is permanently specified in the

organisational strucure and consists of a

supervisor.

2. Task group: the group comprises employees

who work together to complete a particular task

or project, they stay together till the the task is

Completed.


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Informal groups are natural formation in the

work environment which appear in response to

the need for social contact.

1. Interest group; ex, working mothers asking forday care facilities, flexi time.

2. Friendship group; ex, marital status, political

views, college affiliation etc3. Reference group: race, gender,politics, religion

etc


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Open and closed group

open groups differs from closed groups in

four aspects- changing membership, frame of

reference, time perspective and equilibrium. Frame of reference: employees bringing new ideas

Time perspective: short term and long term planning

Equilibrium:refers to the process of restoring to the

balance and stability from imbalance and instability.


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In groups and out groups

The groups to which we belong are in groups

and groups to which we do not belong are out

groups. Ex: ones community, state, nationalrivalries, etc


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Why do people join groups

Needs for security

Esteem

Affiliation

Power

Identity


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Organisational functions of groups

o Working on a complex and independent task

o Generating new ideas

o

Creative solutions to solve problemso Facilitating the implementation of complex

decisions


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Stages of group development

Mutualacceptance

Communicationand decision

making

Motivation

productivity

Control

organisation

New tasks

New members


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Documents

Team Building and Group Dynamic