What Can a Manager Learn from the Characteristics and Activities of This Particular Team? How Might the Factors That Contribute to This Team's Success Be Adopted in a Business Setting?

Determine the reasons for the team's effectiveness. Consider team characteristics and activities, such as role structures, norms, cohesiveness, and conflict management.

There are many reasons behind a team's effectiveness. The Task Group has announced an Ad-hoc meeting every morning. The Task Group continued addressing the comments and issues. The Task Group was structured into three different teams. A team from the Group was Analyzing called Business Analyst, another team was developing and the other team was testing the quality standards can Testing Specialist. Since IEEE is a non-profit organization, these projects were sponsored other organizations and there were some conflicts. We tried to maintain the standard and established an IT community. On the other hand, the companies tried to make more profit doing less. We had some conflict management and all the policies in placed to deal with this kind of issues. Finally, we had good understanding and completed each task on timely manner.

What can a manager learn from the characteristics and activities of this particular team? How might the factors that contribute to this team's success be adopted in a business setting?

The manager can learn a many things from the characteristics and activities of the task team. The task groups are designed in such a way that they have to choose between different options. That means they have to decide in advance preferably how they will arrive at a final decisions. In that case the managers have to understand that this task force works involve a lot decision making which they have to do it in advance. Another pattern that also develops is when a small group of member is outside of the formal meeting and makes a decision. When this agreement is presented to the whole group, the group has to already agree to the decision. The managers have to understand that this activities task group workers doing involves risks. Striving to achieve complete agreement, especially in a larger group can very difficult, because when they are meeting every week ever morning for three months or so and still have not come up to a decision. The member of the group will lose interest and drop out. Leading or being a member of a task group can be very challenging. Learning from a mistake will help you to be more prepared for future task group experience to come.