What is a team? 2

What is a team?
Within any work situation you will have to work as part of a team.

There are some standard types of teams in organisations which are brought together to achieve particular objectives and outcomes.

These include:

• Management teams

• Project teams

• Production teams

Management teams are brought together to determine strategic objectives.

They are also there to coordinate all activities and manage performance.
Examples include:

• Executive teams formed to review flexi-time working policies

• Quality management teams to determine quality policy

• Interview boards to recruit to senior management positions

Project teams are brought together for a limited time to achieve a specific purpose such as problem solving or the development of a new product.
Examples include:

• Introducing a new business procedure (e.g. online airline booking)

• Deploying troops overseas (e.g. Afghanistan)

• Writing and delivering an educational programme (e.g. this module)

Production teams are responsible for performing day to day core operations.
Examples include:

• Surgery teams performing operations

• Cockpit crews flying aircraft

• Car production teams on the assembly line building cars.

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