Essentials for Successful Organizational Team

Management Theory and Practice

"Teams are an important aspect of organizational life, and the ability to manage them is an important component of manager and organization success"

Task

Discuss the above statement with the following guidelines, and in your discussion use your organization (or an organization of your choice) as a practical example to support your argument.

1. Why do you think managing team is such an important part of a manager's job?

2. Briefly discuss the five stages of team development. Which stage do you think is the most crucial stage that a manager should pay special attention to? Why?

3. Discuss the task specialist and socio-emotional roles of a team member. Which role is more important for a team's effectiveness? Why?

4. What is the relationship between team cohesiveness and team performance?

5. Describe the advantage and disadvantages of teams. In what situation might the disadvantages outweigh the advantages?

Important Note

1. The above are generally the guidelines for the entire essay, it is not individual question and answer. We must use one real company as example and apply the theories for the above requirements.

2. Application of theory and practical example are equally important with appropriate use of Harvard referencing method with in text citation.

3. Recommended author for this subject is Richard L. Daft and recommended reading is The New Era of Management 2006 and 2008. And all others related management theory and practice readings including online, journal and etc.

4. Plagiarism check is needed via some software so originality is important and no wholesale copying is allowed.

5. Report should be in essay format.

6. Sufficient use of references is crucial.

Need guidance for the above. This is at master level and application of both theory and practical real life example in business context are both equally important.