Team development:existing models and improvements

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Team development: existing models and improvements...... by Zisis Atsou s210263

Team development or in short, teamwork , is an important tool for companies to gain a step in a competitive environment. Bruce Tuckman in 1965 established 4 stages of team development , in order to identify the feelings and behaviors of every teammate, as well as break down the process of creating a team(1). Companies invest a lot of money in teams, cause their products , services , or any other activity they have, depends on the group of people tasked to create all these. Many other similar researches have been published about the stages of development , like farell et all, 2009(2), or issac and liat, 2016(3), but all concluded to 4 common stages: Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing. All of which can be used, not only to evaluate how well the team members are gonna connect, but to identify any problems that may occur during this process. Additionally, another stage was added later by Tuckman & Jensen, 1977, called adjourning, which is used to explain what happens after the task is over and the team gets disbanded(5).

All these tools are very important for project management and generally any task management , cause the members can understand and reach a common goal, each other’s feeling and take proper action about it, regardless their experience level(4).

So, after all this research on the stages, many solutions were proposed to improve them, and make the teamwork go smoother. But what new can be done to further improve the process? Variables such as education, nationality, sociability , task orientation , familiarity , beliefs , or ethics will be explored further to determine whether they make a difference in the process of team development.

References for the abstract

     1.What Is Tuckman’s Model Of Group Development? Tuckman’s Model Of Group Development In A Nutshell, Gennaro Cuofano / November 29, 2022 

     2.  Informal roles and the stages of interdisciplinary team development       MICHAELP. FARRELL, MADELINEH.  SCHMITT and GLORIAD.HEINEMANN,  Published online: 06 Jul 2009  

     3.  Issar, G., Navon, L.R. (2016). Team Work and its Development. In: Operational Excellence. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi-org.proxy.findit.cvt.dk/10.1007/978-3-319-20699-8_32  

     4. How to successfully go through the Five Stages of Team Development, Natacha Leduc, 13 May 2019 

     5. The stages of group development: A retrospective study of dynamic team processes  Miller, Diane L. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences — 2003, Volume 20, Issue 2,
     
     6.  BRUCE TUCKMAN'S FORMING, STORMING, NORMING & PERFORMING TEAM DEVELOPMENT MODEL, academia edu, culture artwork,  2010 Carol Wilson www.coachingcultureatwork.com

     7.  TEAM DEVELOPMENT, Tang, Keow Ngang ,Leadership and Change Management — 2019, pp. 37-46
    
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