Team Building BLOG 6

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Team Building in the Workplace Team building is very important if you wish to extract the best out of your workforce. Employees are urged to work smarter and not just harder, in an effort to deliver the desired results. Though it definitely contributes in its own way, individual brilliance does not singlehandedly decide the Fate of an entire project or target

Beer (1976, 1980), Dyer (1977), and Buller (1986) have discussed four current models of team building: Goal setting, interper-sonal relations, problem solving, and role clarification. Goal set-ting emphasizes the setting of objectives and the development of individual and team goals. Team members exposed to a goal-setting team-building intervention are supposed to become involved in action planning to identify ways to achieve those goals.

Team building involves a wide range of activities, designed for improving team performance.

Its aim is to bring out the best in a team to ensure self-development, positive communication,

Leadership skills and the ability to work closely together as a team to problem solve.

 A research done on Towards Effective Team Building in the Workplace by Fapohunda, Tinuke. M from Department of Industrial Relations and Public Administration Lagos State University Ojo. Nigeria says

Fajana (2002) asserts that teamwork is an integration of resources and inputs working in harmony to achieve organizational goals, where roles are prescribed for every organization member, challenges are equally faced and incremental  Improvements are sought continually.

Katzenbach and Smith (1993) notes that a team can simply International Journal of  Education and Research

Vol. 1 No. 4 April 2013 3 be defined as a small number of people, with a set of performance goals, who have a commitment to a common purpose and an approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable

Samsung’s Product Innovation Team

Samsung developed a New Concept Development (NCD) process that all business units could implement and execute when innovating new products and services. As a company, Samsung puts a lot of efforts into innovation. As a p art of Samsung’s overall innovation process, the Project Innovation Team was born out of the need to have an incubator group to work with every business unit to provide more market insight.

 PIT’s purpose is to focus on developing production and solution concepts using consumer insight, market-driven technologies and innovation for commercialization.  They do this simultaneously while working directly with the product planning groups for each business unit.

REERANCE

Fajana, S. (2002) Human Resource Management An Introduction. Labofin and Company, Lagos

APA (6th ed.) Katzenbach, J. R., & Smith, D. K. (1993). The wisdom of  teams

Samsung Product API,

Beer, M. (1976). The technology of organization development. In M. D. Dunnette (Ed.),

Handbook of industrial and organizational psychology (pp. 937-994). Chicago: Rand McNally.

Buller, P. F., & Bell, C. H. (1986). Effects of team building and goal setting on productivity:

A field experiment. Academy of Management Journal, 29, 305-328