1. Building Effective teams Objectives:  The types of people and behavior required for an effective team  Techniques for team building  Factors influencing the effectiveness of teams, and take a contingency approach team management  How to assess the effectiveness of a team  The impact of technology on team function

2. Building Effective teams Team Building Impact of TechnologyTeam Effectiveness Selecting a team Building Effective teams Selecting a team Impact of Technology Selecting a team Impact of Technology Selecting a team Building Effective teams Impact of Technology Selecting a team Building Effective teams Impact of Technology Selecting a team Building Effective teams Impact of Technology Selecting a teamTeam Building Building Effective teams Impact of Technology Selecting a teamTeam Building Building Effective teams Impact of Technology Selecting a team Team Effectiveness Team Building Building Effective teams Impact of Technology Selecting a team

3. Selecting a Team Team Effectiveness Team Building Building Effective teams Impact of Technology Selecting a team: -Selecting team members -team roles -Multi-disciplinary teams

4. Selecting a team Selecting team members: Team membership may already be dictated by: Existing arrangements / organization / politics / election When selecting team members, it is beneficial that the manager looks into the following aspects: Specialist skills and Knowledge / Experience / Political power in organization / Access to resources / Competence

5. Team roles RM Belbin who is a researcher suggested that an effective team is made up of people who fill, between them, a set of 8 roles.

6. Multidisciplinary teams They are teams that bring together individuals with different skills and specialisms, so that their skills, experience and knowledge can be pooled or exchanged. Multi-skilled Teams: Instead of pooling skills and knowledge of different specialists, a team may simply bring together a number of individuals each of whom is functionally versatile or multi skilled and who can together perform any of the group’s task

7. Team Building Team Effectiveness Team Building: -Team Building -Team Identity -Team Solidarity -Commitment to shared objectives Building Effective teams Impact of Technology Selecting a team

8. Team Building: Team Building: involves – 1-Giving a group of people a greater sense of their identity as a team 2-Encouraging group loyalty or solidarity 3-Ecnouraging the group to commit themselves to shared work objectives Team Identity: Giving the team a name / giving the team a badge or uniform / expressing a team’s self image / Building a team Mythodology Team Solidarity Expressing Solidarity / Encouraging interpersonal relationships / controlling conflicts / controlling intra-group competition / Encouraging intra-group competition

9. Commitment to shared objectives The purpose of team building is to have a close knit and satisfied team, but to have a close –knit and satisfied team that fulfills its task objectives Getting a team behind its objectives involves a set of activities. lets have a look on page 239 in text book

10. Team Effectiveness Team Effectiveness: -A contingency Approach -Characteristics of effective & Ineffective work teams Team Building Building Effective teams Impact of Technology Selecting a team

11. Team Effectiveness: A contingency Approach: An effective team is one which does 2 things Achieves its tasks / maintains co-operative working through the satisfaction and interrelationships of its members Characteristics of effective &Ineffective work teams: some pointers to group efficiency are quantifiable (numerically measured) factors ; others are more qualitative factors (can be observed but not necessary measured) Tables on page 241-242

12. Impact of Technology Team Effectiveness Team Building Impact of Technology: -Change and Technology -Networks and Vital teams -Info. & communication Technologies -Global and cross Cultural teams Building Effective teams Selecting a team

13. Impact of Technology Change and Technology Networks and Vital teams: Also known as geographically dispersed team. There are 7 basic types of virtual teams: Networked teams / parallel teams / project or product teams / work or product teams/ service teams / management teams / action teams.

14. In two groups, read through then following topics, write down your own understanding to them and then we will discuss.  Information & communication Technologies  Global and cross Cultural teams Activity time !