Friday, June 26, 2009

Team-Based Organization

Chapter Eight explains the concept of team-based organizations and the advantages of them. Team-based organizations are teams that have a group of employees with a wide variety of expertise. These people come together and form a group in order to work on a project. This group is effective because the exchange information with one another and bring a different outlook to the group. The groups should be self-managed and the workers are dedicated to self-improvement, positive results, and collaboration. The team-based organizations increase productivity which result in higher job satisfaction amongst employees.
My belief is that by bringing a wide array of employees into a group, including manufacturers, sales, and engineering, the group will avoid group think. Group think is common in groups and happens when the group goes along with one persons idea even if they think something is wrong, it is to avoid being the odd man out. By bringing in people with different perspectives, ideas will be out of the box and provide greater results.

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  1. Groups are probably the best thing that can ever come with work. Within a group, you have the ability to bounce ideas off of one another, which will hopefully make that idea grown even bigger than it was before. Eventually, the idea will grow bigger and bigger and will turn into something that the whole organization will agree to or will help out the organization.

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