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Abhijeet S
- The nature of teams may be changing, but the underlying nature and benefits of teams are not.
- Teams are becoming more numerous and complex, with one person often being a member of a number of teams in an organisation. Recent discussions have highlighted:
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- In one medium sized organisation, formal management responsibilities being assigned to teams of people from different parts of the organisation.
- Instead of having formal positions for specific functions (human resources, health and safety, etc), a committee structure has been created and successfully implemented.
- This helps ensure that the responsibility and accountability for these important functions is shared between a number of people.
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- In one technology based company, product and system implementations for different clients require different parts of the organisation to provide services.
- Consequently, the project team can be very different for each client, depending on the expertise required.
- Team members may be based locally, in Australia or other parts of the world.
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- In another services company, staff find themselves working in multiple teams at the same time.
- At any given part of the year, the number of projects can range from two to six, depending on the current client assignments.
- These team structures are in addition to the formal organisational unit structure where team members reside.
- They are expected to use teamwork to complete the functional aspects of their positions along with their colleagues in the same organisational unit.