The document discusses the importance of work groups and teams for effective performance in procurement and supply functions. It defines a group as people who see themselves as a group, with a common purpose, accepted operating procedures, and roles and responsibilities. Groups work in a coordinated way to achieve their goal, after which the group disbands. The document also discusses how groups behave similarly to individuals in having structure, seeking to maintain themselves, and solving problems, but that group dynamics also influence individual behavior within the group. Studying group behavior is thus important to understanding organizational behavior.

1. Groups & Teams
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In Procurement & Supply

2. We have to evaluate
THE
IMPORTANCE OF
WORK GROUPS
or TEAMS for
Effective
Performance in the
Procurement &
Supply function

3. ACHIEVE GOALS OF THE GROUP OR THE
ORGNISATION IN ITS RIGHT TIME, IN ITS
RIGHT QUALITY AND QUANTITY IS WHAT IS
RECKONED AS EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE

4. Groups, Teams &
Teamwork

5. Charles Handy's
revolutionary
1989 bestseller
'The Age of
Unreason'
catapulted him
into the ranks
of the top
management
consultants.
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6. Now, in this new edition of his
acclaimed study 'Understanding
Organizations', he solidifies his
reputation as a
seminal business thinker, offering a
brilliantly insightful,
wide-ranging look at
business organizations.
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7. Long a bestseller in the
United Kingdom, this
classic text offers an
illuminating discussion of
key concepts of concern to
all managers:
culture, motivation,
leadership, power,
role-playing and
working in groups.
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8. Handy defines a group as
'any collection of people
who perceives
themselves to be a
group.' The point of this
definition is
the distinction it implies
between a random
collection of individuals
and a group of
individuals who share a
common sense of
identity and belonging.
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9. The members of the
group will have a
common purpose or
aim or goal. The
achievement of this
goal is the sole idea
behind the
establishment of the
group.

10. They will hve a
commonly accepted
modus operandi, each
member will have roles
and responsibilities.
They will work in a
coordinated way. On
achievement of the goal
the group is dismantled
or disbursed off.

11. James C Coleman,
Psychology and Effective
Behaviour
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12. The tremendous and accelerating advances of modern science
and technology have led to unprecedented progress and
unprecedented problems.
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13. On the one hand
we can point
to man's
increasing
mastery of the
secrets of nature,
to an economy of
abundance, to
the conquest of
disease, and to
spectacular
cultural advances.
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14. On the other we see the
dangers of
a divided world, of
thermonuclear warfare,
of a population
explosion, of grinding
poverty side by side with
abundance, and of
other complex problems
which man has never
before faced.
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15. These problems press for solution if man is to survive and
move forward. And the solution to these problems appears
to depend less upon increased technological know-how and
more upon a better understanding of man and his social
systems.

16. In Psychology and
Effective
Behaviour JCC sugge
sts that, in many
ways, group behaves
in similar way to
individuals.

17. 'Groups, like
individuals, have
structural
and integrative
characteristics and
operate
in physical and
social settings.

18. Like individuals, they
strive to maintain
themselves and
resist disintegration
and seek to grow
and develop their
potentials.

19. Like individuals
they may solve their
problems in either
task-oriented or
defence-oriented
ways, and

20. if their problems are
beyond their resources-
or believed to be – they
may show evidence
of strain, de-
compensation and
pathology.'

21. However, people
also behave
differently in groups
than they do as
individuals, because
of dynamics of
groups; patterns of
communications,
roles, relationships
and influence, within
the group.

22. This is why
it's important to
study
group behaviour
as part
of the behaviour
of the people
in organisations.

23. THANK YOU
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