3. Team Intervention
• A group of individuals with complementary
skills who depend upon one another to
accomplish a common purpose or a set of
performance goals for which they hold
themselves mutually accountable.
• To intervene is to enter into an ongoing
system of relationships, to come between or
among persons, groups or objects for the
purpose of helping them.
4. Work Group and A Team
• A work group is
- usually reporting to a common superior
- having some face-to-face interaction
- persons have some degree of interdependence in carrying
out tasks for the purpose of achieving organizational goals
• A team is
- a form of group
- has some characteristics in greater degree than ordinary
groups
- and a higher degree of interdependency and interaction
6. Team approach is appropriate under
following conditions
• To permit members to gain new expertise and
experience and to develop and educate
members.
• To build and enhance employee commitment
because teams offer increased levels of
participation in decisions.
• To work on a problem that does not belong to
any one person.
• When rewards are based on team performance
rather than individual performance.
7. Operating problems of work team
Team
operating
problems
Goals
Member
needs
Decision
making
Leadership