Saturday, June 27, 2009

Chapter 8- Teams

Good communication in teams is vital to its success most of the time. Teams can be found in all organizations, education, and simply through life. Teams with in organizations are defined as groups of employees with representation from a variety of functional areas within the organization to maximize the cross-functional exchange of information. We can see examples of this compared to departments in an organization. Each department has some assortment of teams; whether it’s sales, marketing, or even managing. Teams are vital because it allows for many different points of views and can lead to ground breaking discoveries that could have never happened if it was not for the 'team'. Some different types of teams include virtual, quality improvement, work teams, and also project teams. They all have a purpose and end up serving the whole organization, not only certain departments. 

1 comment:

  1. Teams to me is a group of people who act together in unison to attain a goal or set of goals. Even though all teams are groups, not all groups Like you said there are many different kinds of teams and that they all serve different purposes. I think having a team within a team can also be key to making a big team function well. Example of teams within teams are committees. For me personally, with experience, I find that committees are very useful.

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