BUS 150 Lecture 8: Business Chapter 8 – Teamwork
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Business chapter 8 business in action (bovee/thill) Lower levels of stress and destructive internal competition. Characteristics of effective teams: clear sense of purpose, open and honest communication, creative thinking, accountability, focus, decision by consensus, make efficient teamwork a top priority, select team members wisely, build a sense of fairness in decision making. A measure of how committed team (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)ers are to their tea(cid:373)"s goals. Informal standards of conduct that guide team behavior. Brings important issues into the open, increases the involvement of team members, and generates creative ideas for solving a problem. Diverts energy from more important issues, destroys the morale of teams or individual team members, or polarizes or divides the team. A(cid:374) orga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374) that does(cid:374)"t have a (cid:272)o(cid:374)ve(cid:374)tio(cid:374)al stru(cid:272)ture (cid:271)ut i(cid:374)stead asse(cid:373)(cid:271)les tale(cid:374)t as needed from the open market; the virtual and networked organizational concepts taken to the extreme. Access to more interesting and more fulfilling work.
