A team is a small group of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common goal and approach. An effective team has interaction and influence between members to function well. Team members need technical, problem-solving, decision-making, and interpersonal skills. There are different types of teams including work teams focused on using resources, problem-solving teams to address specific issues, management teams of managers from different areas, and virtual teams that may never meet in person.

1. PRESENTED BY:
Palak Pandoh

2. What is a Team?

3.  A team is a small number of people with
complementary skills who are committed to a common
purpose, common performance goals, and an approach
for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.
 Team and team work have emerged popular terms in
management circles these days.

4.  A team includes few people, same as a small group,
because the interaction and influence processes, vital
for a team to function, can only occur when the
number of members is small.
 When more peoples are involved there will be a
difficulty in interacting and influencing each other.

5.  Basically team includes people with mix of skills
appropriate to the task to be done. Team members
need :
Technical
Problem solving
Decision making
Inter-personal skills
However, as the team grows, develops and matures,
team members will come to have more of the necessary
skills.

6. Following are the distinct features
of team
 They are empowered to share various management
and leadership functions.
 They plan, control and improve their own work
process.
 They set their own goals and inspect their own work.
 They often create their own schedules and review their
performance as a group.
 They, and not others outside the team, take
responsibility for the quality of their products or
services.

7. In Team:
 The performance however depends on both individual
contributions and collective efforts of team members
working in concert.
 Members work together to produce an outcome that
represents their joint contributions and each team member
shares responsibility for that outcome.
 Team members share a common commitment to purpose.
 Teams are free to set their own goals, timing and the
approach they wish to adopt without interference from
management.
 The teams are self-managing and are autonomous.

8. Teams
Work Teams
Problem Solving
Teams
Management
Teams
Virtual Teams

9. 1. Work Teams = These are primarily concerned with the
work done by the organisation, such as developing and
manufacturing new products, providing services for
customers, etc. Their principle focus is on using the
organization resources effectively.
2. Problem solving teams – These are temporary teams
established to attack specific problems in the work place.
After solving the problems the team is usually disbanded,
allowing members to return to their normal work. These
teams are often cross-functional.

10. 3. Management teams – These consist of managers from
various areas and co-ordinate work teams. They are
relatively permanent. Management teams must
concentrate on the teams that have the most impact on
overall corporate performance. The primary job of
management teams is to coach and counsel other teams to
be self managing by making decision within the teams.
4. Virtual teams – These are the teams that may never
actually meet together in the same room –their activities
takes place on the computer via teleconferencing & other
electronic information system. Engineers in the US, for eg:
can contact audibly and visually with counterparts all
around the globe , sharing files via internet, electronic
mail, and other communication networks; all participants
can look at the same drawing print, or specifications.

11. REFERENCES
 Organizational Behavior by K. Aswathappa 10th
edition.
 www.wikipedia.com