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Principles and Practices of Management Anand Thakur, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 15: Team and Team Work

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction

15.1 Creating Effective Teams
15.2 Types of Teams
15.3 Team Building

15.3.1 The Purpose of Team Building/High-performance Teams
15.3.2 Developing Team Members’ Self-management Skills
15.4 Quality Circles
15.4.1 Benefits of Quality Circles
15.4.2 Introducing Quality Circle in an Organisation

15.4.3 Problems in Implementation of Quality Circles
15.5 Summary
15.6 Keywords

15.7 Self Assessment
15.8 Review Questions
15.9 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
State how effective teams are created

Discuss types of teams and team building
Describe quality circles

Introduction

A team is a relatively permanent work group whose members must coordinate their activities
to achieve one or more common objectives. The objectives might include advising others in the
organisation, producing goods or services, and carrying out a project. Because achievement of
the team’s objectives requires coordination, team members depend on one another and must
interact regularly. A work team generates positive synergy through coordinated effort. Their
individual efforts result in a level of performance that is greater than the sum of those individual
inputs. Teams have far-reaching impact in today’s workplace. They have become an essential
part of the way business is being done.
Teams imply a high degree of coordination among their members, along with a shared belief
that winning (achieving team goals) is not only desirable but the very reason for the team’s
existence. You can infer that any team is a group, but unfortunately, not all groups have the high
degree of interdependence and commitment to success that we traditionally associate with the

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