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Organisational Behaviour

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The organisational organ known as the team is becoming more and more apparent in today's dynamic business world. Increasingly managers are searching for a means to improve production and keep their organisation competitive in the global market. A lot of these managers have turned to the team as a means for achieving this improvement. Quality circles were looked at to fulfil this role. However, this form of team is being phased out and may have posed as incubator for the current trend; self - managed work teams (Klein, 1995). These teams are increasingly being looked at today to solve many an organisation's production problems and inefficiencies, and in the process are both badly failing and greatly succeeding. Therefore, the discussion of …show more content…

However, they obviously want to steer clear of the possible problems and costs that unsuccessful team implementation can produce. As Dumaine (1994:86) points out, teams are the Ferraris of work design. They're high performance but high maintenance and expensive. What organisations want is a Ferrari with the costs of a Ford or Holden. Although all teams require maintenance and costs, there are factors that can be fine-tuned to keep these costs to a minimum, which will also maximise a team's success. The first factor that should be addressed before the actual team is implemented is, what are the reasons for implementation? As Magee (1997:27) points out, the decision to form teams involves taking risk. It means that the agency believes that the product of the team will be significantly greater than what can be produced by any one individual. Therefore, management is risking resources when appointing them to teams. So, the decision to create a team should only be made if there will be an expected improvement in production. To help with this decision, a comprehensive planning and study period should be carried out. This should be done so your knowledge of teams and teamwork is high. This will help facilitate team building and from this the building process can flow smoothly as a result of preplanning. The study process should not be

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