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This 14 page paper considers the different elements that are required to build and motivate a team. The paper looks at this from the perspective of building an IT team, but may be used for other types of team. The writer looks at motivational theory, the role of leadership and the importance to communication before applying this theories to some example cases. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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File: TS14_TEteambd.rtf.
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a competitive advantage over competitors. This may be due to the intellect of a few individual, or it may be the way in which team work takes place. Where teamwork
is used there is a aggregation of knowledge, a transfer of skills, and the total value may be greater then the sum of the parts. However, for this to occur
there needs to be a good team that is motivated. In looking at motivation of teams, especially if they are in an IT environment, then many factors need to be
considered. There needs to be the correct make u of the team, disruptive members may lead to demotivation of the team, creating an environment where the optimum choices will
not be taken, over domination may lead to erroneous decisions being made, the problem of collective responsibility, as well as environmental factors and available resources and leadership of the team.
Teamwork can be seen as developing in the days since the industrial revolution. In the days prior to the industrial revolution development of a product would have been by a
single person, form start to finish, this was the age of the craftsmen. However, with scientific management and increasingly complex tasks, even those skilled have become more specialised. In effect
the ultimate team maybe compared to the single craftsman, and the modern team is needed to bring all of the increasing complex skills together (Flemming and Koppleman, 1996).
It may still be argued than in a limited number of instances the single approach may be better, however there are also issues such
as bounded rationality, as well as the boundaries of labour and work that can be gained form a single person, indicating that teams can, at the very least, accelerate the
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