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In order to gain insight into the management strategy related to team management, you will continue to focus on Raytheon Technologies as a focus company and review their What We Do and News sections which will help reconfirm your understanding of their business. Assume that you have now been with the company for five years and have accepted a promotion as a manager in a newly-created department within the Raytheon Missiles & Defense unit. You determine that the most appropriate approach to accomplishing the departmental tasks is to form teams. Respond to the following questions:
- Explore the stages of team development by addressing the following:
- Forming: define what occurs during this stage and provide one example of the role of the team leader and a team member. Also, comment on the overall attitude of each of these participants.
- Storming: define what occurs during this stage and provide one example of the role of the team leader and a team member. Also, comment on the overall attitude of each of these participants.
- Norming: define what occurs during this stage and provide one example of the role of the team leader and a team member. Also, comment on the overall attitude of each of these participants.
- Performing: define what occurs during this stage and provide one example of the role of the team leader and a team member. Also, comment on the overall attitude of each of these participants.
- Characterize benefits and challenges related to team management by addressing the following:
- Define the concept of “paradox” and provide one example of a goal for a team member and one example of a goal for the team. If you were managing the team and the two goals were in conflict, give one example of how you could provide a resolution.
- Provide an example of a source of team conflict that could be detrimental to the team. If you were managing the team, describe how you could utilize real-time permission to minimize conflict.
- Provide an example of a source of team conflict that could be beneficial to the team. If you were managing the team, describe how you could utilize mining to stimulate conflict. Finally, do you agree with the textbook that there could be a benefit to having team conflict? Explain why you would or would not agree.
- Describe the term “groupthink” and provide one example. Next, indicate how having a diverse set of team members would impact this issue, and identify two benefits of incorporating diversity into your team.
- Describe one cultural difference which could cause negative conflict within a multicultural team. Next, explain one type of intervention that you could utilize to address and resolve the conflict.
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Management Accounting Information for Decision-Making and Strategy Execution
ISBN: 978-0137024971
6th Edition
Authors: Anthony A. Atkinson, Robert S. Kaplan, Ella Mae Matsumura, S. Mark Young
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