Team Building, Building A Successful Team

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Organizational climate ; Weather of the work place

Team Building, Building A Successful Team

Team building a fairly recent use of groups in organization

Through conscious effort a manager can build a team of workers who will function as a unit and achieve a group goals and such a group is called a work team. Team Building is a process that requires effort from everyone involved and usually takes quite a bit of time.

Why , then are many organizations to day willing to put the necessary time and effort into building work team?

Because work teams allow individuals to have more say in their jobs: job satisfaction is thus improved. Creation of team spirit, as an athletic team , a work team succeeds only when members are seeking success for the team as a whole, rather than individually. Workers who belong to a successful team will be more loyal, will have better attitudes, and will be more productive.

Guidelines if you want to make team building approach work in your company:

1. Good intentions are not enough, formal training program should be used preferably with a leader who has had experience with team building elsewhere.

2. If you are a manager, learn to let go. Team building involves delegation of responsibilities to the group responsibilities that were once only the managers business.

3. When team building consultant starts working to create a work group, he/she will ask often in writing the following questions: a. What do you want from this team? What can your membership in this group do for you personally? What do you want it to do for you personally? b. What do you have to give to this team? 4. Trust without trust there can be no team building 5. Goals establishing and refining goals can be aided by using the following question: a. What do you want from the team? b. What can you give?

Building A Successful Team

As is any new method of dealing with people, team building is full of possible areas of error. These errors should be examined carefully by anyone attempting team building before the first implementation step is attempted

Each of the following steps will help avoid common pitfalls in the team building process:

Train the Team Manage the team as a team Delegate authority specifically Be a clarifier Be a communicator

ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE ; WEATHER OF THE WORK PLACE

The interaction of groups within the workplace aids the formation of

organizational climate

Major Qualities of Organizational Climate:

It involves the way members of an organization see it in terms of trust, recognition, freedom to create, fairness, and allowed independence. It is produced by the way members relate to each other it reflects the norms and attitudes of the organizations culture It influences and helps to shape the behavior of individuals It is a basis for understanding any situation in the organization

Guidelines for building a positive and productive organizational climate:

Check your own example

Listen to your colleagues

Notice physical details Get rid of ambiguity Make people feel important

 Difference between corporate culture and organizational climate Corporate culture is the network of shared values. W H I L E Organizational climate : it is the norms and attitudes of the organizations culture

FIVE TYPES OF CORPORATE CULTURE

Father Founder Culture Bureaucratic Culture Participative Culture
Professional Culture Managerial Entrepreneurial Culture

Here are some of the commonly accepted qualities that a corporate culture should have:
Instead of bullying and shouting, or otherwise being autocratic, a manager should avoid making an employee feel intimidated or overly uncomfortable.

The new corporate culture is goal oriented.

Among the shared values of culture, fairness is very high.

The new culture allows for the self esteem development of all members of the organization.

An emerging element of new culture is participative management.

The Importance of Fairness

Trust in the work place is the main tool for workers confidence management. Consistency means remaining predictable and fair Truthfulness one of the most obvious necessities for fairness Integrity is a way of describing the extent to which managers and others are truly willing to put shared values and expectations of a culture into action.

Expectations refer to those that come from management.

Equity means treating everybody with the same rules.
Influence allowing each member of the organization to have a stake in a wide range of activities, including goal setting, problem solving, and helping to make changes. Justice means that the reward must fit the achievement, the punishment must fit the crime.

Respect deep sense of high regard to people, is the basis of all fairness.

Overall fairness means much more than simply treating people nicely.

Fairness is a central issue in the psychological contract between managers and subordinates. This contract is not a piece of paper; it is a sometimes unconscious, usually unspoken, agreement between two people to behave in certain ways toward each other.