Gives a basic understanding of what could be done to increase teamwork to benefit an organization. In researching the significance of teamwork and the problems teams confront in the business arena, provides a better understanding of how team building fits into the future of successful...

Defines the essential factors for the development of effective teams including elements such as members with the right mix of skills, clear goals, upper management support and incentives and challenges. Describes the process of team development and affirms the value of teams in ensuring a...

In order to survive in today’s current downsizing within the defence sector, Hughes Aircraft Company has risen to the challenge by emphasizing teaming efforts, re‐engineering and adopting concurrent engineering process methods and has developed the integrated product development (IPD)...

States that the use of work teams is becoming more and more prominent in organizations today, and that these work teams are empowered to formulate and solve an organization’s problems and thus involve the naturally occurring dynamic of conflict. Explains that conflict is perceived as negative...