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This 4 page paper begins with comments about the importance of training managers and employees for successful team development. The writer reports Maccoby's six rules for improving teamwork and also provides other tips to help teams become more effective. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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to assure successful teams. Companies who attempt to implement teamwork without adequately training for both managers and employees are setting up the teams for failure. Maccoby (2003) comments that despite
the volumes of research and articles on improving teamwork, "we" still keep coming back to this same question (p. 59). This author believes the reason the question of how to
improve teamwork keeps coming up is because most of what is written is about "improving relationships between individuals" but "these issues call for developing the organizational culture in which these
relationships take place" (Maccoby, 2003, p. 59). Maccoby (2003) offers six rules for improving teamwork: 1. Describe the purpose of the work you and the team are doing. Exactly what
is the team supposed to achieve? Without a goal and objective, the team does not know what to do. Just as an individual needs to be clear about the purpose
of their work and the tasks they must do, a team needs the same information. Teams cannot be innovative if they dont know and understand their purpose and objectives (Maccoby,
2003, p. 59). 2. Clarify roles and responsibilities. More conflicts are caused by unclear roles than any other reason. Team members need to know what their roles are in relation
to each other and they need to know the teams role in relation to other teams. Lacking clear roles and responsibilities, team members do not feel empowered to take on
whatever responsibility is expected. Team members must also have the competencies to perform the responsibilities and roles (Maccoby, 2003, p. 59). 3. Make sure managers and subordinates understand each others
personality. This is especially important when it comes to motivation because different personalities find different things motivating. The more team members understand each other, the more productive they will be
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