Management

LOC : 3.3 Discuss the importance of team work for successful completion of a construction project.

Groups & Teams.

Group : Two or more individuals who come into personal & meaningful contract on a continuing basis. Team : A group organizationally empowered to participate in decision making, exercise influence over how their objectives are met & often, establish many of those objectives.

Team Decision Making.

There is considerable controversy over when team decision making is appropriate. Some individual think that its waste of time & should only be used when the politics of the situation demand it. Others believe that team decision making is often superior to individual decision making & should be used when ever possible.

Advantages of Team Decision Making

01. Greater Knowledge : A team knowledge should be & usually are greater than those of any one member. If the teams members have various skills & sources of information about task, each might be able to fill gaps in knowledge of others.

Advantages of Team Decision Making

02. A diversity of approaches : Individuals tend to develop tunnel vision, regarding only their part of problem as importance. When individuals on a team share problem stimulate the search for a variety of approaches.

Advantages of Team Decision Making

03. Increase acceptance : A person who is given a chance to influence a team decisions may be more committed to the decision & accept more responsibility for making it work than someone who is just told what to do.

Advantages of Team Decision Making

04. Better Understanding : Someone who solves a problem along usually has the traditional task persuading others to implement the solution. As result, further problems are often caused by sub-ordinates inadequate understanding of the problem.

Disadvantages of Team Decision Making

01. Blind conformity. 02. Domination by an individual. 03. Goal displacement. 04. Wasting of time.

Types of Teams.
01. Formal Teams :A organizational group whose purpose & tasks directly to attainment of stated organizational objectives. 02. Problem-solving teams : A formal group of hourly & salaried employees, often volunteers, who meet to discuss ways to improve quality, productivity & work environment.

Types of Teams.
03. Special-purpose team: A formal group of employees from various departments or even two organizational levels that is empowered with responsibility to handle any of a number of possible special situation.

Stress.
The individual's emotional, physical & cognitive response to excessive demands. Stress often creates a nonspecific response. Which means that certain emotional responses occur automatically. That is, we don't consciously control them.

Hans Selye.
Hans selye, often regarded as the father of stress management, notes, however, that stress is not something to be avoided : Complete freedom from stress is death.

Eustress Vs Distress.
Those are types of stress. Eustress : is pleasant or constructive stress, such as the positive emotions one experiences upon being congratulated for doing a good job, or creating a good agreement. Distress : Unpleasant, detrimental or diseaseproducing stress.

Sources of Distress.
1. Conditions that exits in the physical environment. 2. Role conflicts. 3. Role ambiguity.

Role Conflicts.
A conflicts resulting from a persons being subjected to strong & inconsistent pressures or expectation. A role is a group of related tasks & behaviors that an individual is expected to carry out. Role bound within organizations ( superior & peers), and outside of organizations ( Husband & wife ).

Role Ambiguity.
Confusion created by inadequate or unclear information or by uncertainty about the consequences of ones behavior. Individuals may experience difficulties with their role set beyond that created by role conflicts. For some individuals, the tensions & anxieties created by role ambiguity be much more serious than potential role conflicts.