Managing groups for high performance
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Abstract
A successes criteria for a project to reach its objectives, the team should function well which the following statement from the book PMBOK also highlights: "Teamwork is a critical factor for project success, and developing effective project teams is one of the primary responsibilities of the project manager." [1]
This article will take a closer look into the theory of which dynamics makes a team work with high performance and what causes the opposite. Hereafter relevant methods and tools will be presented and explained how to use them.
- How to create a good team
- What are critical issues in team work
- Which techniques and tools to use for managing good teamwork
Introduction
The project manager's role and responsibilities will be clarified in accordance to forming and managing teams, more specific project teams, for high performance.
Big Idea
How teams formed
Definition of a team
All teams are groups, but not all groups are teams. What distinguishes the two definitions is the intensity of work done together to achieve a common goal or objective. REF CONTEM. In this article the main focus will be on teams, due to the Hence a project is defined as:
"The project team is comprised of the people with assigned roles and responsibilities for completing the project." PMBOK Chap 9.1
“A project is a unique set of processesconsisting of coordinated and controlled activitieswith start and end dates, performed to achieve project objectives" accordingly to the ISO 21500 PM Standard REF ISO
Group Roles and its size
- Cohesiveness leads to...
- Social loafing is a consequence of...
Diversity is a key word when forming a team. The diversity can both be measured in expertise, experience, knowledge and skills or as a composition of members from different divisions e.g. marketing, production, engineering and finance. The strength is avoidance of groupthink. Groupthink is when the team faulty strive for reaching an agreement at the expense of a more correct appraisal. REF CONTEM page 363
to stress diversity in expertise, skills, knowledge, and experience. Thus many top management teams are also cross-functional teams: They are composed of members from different departments, such as finance, marketing, production, and engineering. Diversity helps ensure that the top management team will have all the background and resources it needs to make good decisions. Diversity also helps guard against groupthink —faulty group decision making that results when group members strive for agreement at the expense of an accurate assessment of the situation
Group Developments
Five stages of Group Development
- Figure: Five Stages of Group Development
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- Figure: Balancing Conformity and Deviance In Groups
Application
Tools and techniques
- Interpersonal skills (test or not (Belbin, Wholebrain etc.)
- Training
- Teambuilding
Limitations
Notes
Heading may be changed to "Managing teams for high performance"
- ↑ Project Management Institute, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), Fifth Edition, Fifth Edit. Project Management Institute, Inc., 2013.
- ↑ ESSENTIALS OF CONTEMPORARY MANAGEMENT, SIXTH EDITION Published by McGraw-Hill Education, 2 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10121. Copyright © 2015 by McGraw- Hill Education.
