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Organization Change and Development Neha Khosla, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 8: Team and Group Intervention

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
8.1 Team Building
8.2 Team Interventions

8.3 Broad Team Building Interventions
8.3.1 Varieties of Team Building Interventions in a Formal Group
8.4 A Gestalt Approach to Team Building
8.5 Inter Group Interventions
8.6 Third Party Peacemaking Interventions
8.7 Personal Interventions
8.8 Interpersonal and Group Process Interventions

8.9 Summary
8.10 Keywords
8.11 Review Questions
8.12 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:

 Explain broad teams, intergroup interventions
 Describe major approaches to team building

Introduction

A team as we all knows can be defined as “grouped persons with complementary skills and who
are committed to common goals and approach for which they hold themselves mutually
accountable”.
Collaborative management of work team culture is a fundamental emphasis of organisational
development programs. Generally, the techniques and the theory of understanding and
improving performance come from the laboratory training movement coupled with research in
the area of group dynamics.

8.1 Team Building

Synergy in Team-work

Another important feature of a team is the concept of synergy which generates in team-work
and the understanding of which helps in developing effective team. The concept of synergy is
quite popular in strategic management and it is defined as follows:

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