Teamwork Challenge at Stryker Corporation

(This neds to be at least two pages)

1. Discuss the extent to which the characteristics of well-functioning, effective groups accurately describe the Freiburg hip replacement navigation system team.

2. Explain why teamwork is important to effectively solve the problems which field testing of the hip replacement navigation system revealed.

3. Describe how the task functions and maintance functions are operating within the Freiburg team.

4. Explain why diversity and creativity are important to the effectiveness functioning of the Freiburg team.

5. How could Stryker utilize insights gained from the experiences of the Freiburg team to address the ongoing quality problems with the actual orthopedic implants?

6. Obviously, close working relationships need to exist between companies that design, manufacture, and market surgical implants and the surgeons who use those implants. What impact might the antikickback issue have on the working relationship between Stryker and the surgeons who use its orthopedic hip implants?