Please read the below case article & answer, the following questions using the provided resources, your course textbook, PowerPoint presentation, visuals& based on the online learning sessions/interactions:

737 Teaming up for Take Off

The Boeing 737, a sort to medium-range twin-engine, narrow-body jet, first rolled off the assembly line in 1967. Here, almost half a century later, its the best-selling jet airliner in the history of aviation. As airlines replace their aging jet fleets, the burden is on Boeing to ramp up production to meet demand and to do so efficiently. As Boeing managers state, How do you produce more aircraft without expanding the building? Managing production of the multimillion dollar product-a 737-800 is sold for $84.4 million-means walking an increasingly fine line between generating cash and stoking an airplane glut. And Boeing is relying on this employee innovation teams to meet the challenge.

Boeing has been using employee-generated ideas since the 1990s when its manufacturing facility in Renton, Washington, began adopting lean manufacturing techniques. Today, employee teams are leaving few stones unturned. For instance, a member of one thought of solution to a problem of stray mental fasteners sometimes puncturing the tires as the airplane advanced down the assembly line. The solution? A canvas wheel cover that hugs the four main landing-gear tires. Another team figured out how to rearrange its work space to make four engines at a time insteadof three. Another team workers in the paint processrestoredtheir work routines and cut 10 minutes to 15 minutes per worker off each job. It look five years for another employee team to perfect a process for installing the planes landing gear hydraulic tubes, but it eventually paid off.

These employee teams are made up of seven to ten workers with varying backgrounds from mechanics to assembly workers to engineers-and tend to focus on a specific part of a jet, such as the landing gear or the passenger seats or the galleys. These teams may meet asoften asonce a week. Whats the track record of these team? Today, it takeabout 11 day for the final assembly of a 737 jet. Thats down from 22 days about a decade ago. The near-term goal is to whittle that number down to nine days

1.What type team(s) do these employee teams appear to be? Explain.

2.As this story illustration, sometimes it many take a long time for a team to reach its goal. As a manager, how would you motivate a team to keep on trying?.

3.What role do you think a team leader needs to play in this type of setting? Explain.

4.In general, what characteristics of effective team would these teams need? Explain.

You are expected to answer these questions comprehensively with detailed explanation and exampleswherever applicable (at least half a page answer for each question).Please cite relevant sources that you refer to in APA style