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Amity Business School

BBA-LL.B Sem-VI

Organizational Development and Change

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Dr. Preeti Yadav

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Team Interventions• A Team is a form of groups, but has some

characteristics in greater degree than ordinary groups, including the higher commitment to common goals and a higher degree of interdependency and interaction.

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Team Interventions• A Team is a small number of people with

complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, set of performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.

• Cross functional Teams

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Team Interventions• A work group is a number of persons,

usually reporting to a common superior and having some face to face interaction, who have some degree of interdependence in carrying out tasks for the purpose of achieving organisational goals.

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Team InterventionsCharacteristics of an Effective Team• Clear Purpose: Vision, mission, goal or

tasks and an action plan • Informality: Informal, comfortable and

relaxed• Civilised Disagreement: Team is

comfortable with disagreement, does not avoid, smooth over, or suppress conflict

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Team Interventions• Consensus Decision Making: (through

thorough discussions, avoidance of voting)• Open Communications• Clear Roles and Work Assignments:

(Clear expectations and work evenly divided)

• Shared Leadership: ( in addition with a formal leader, every one shares effective leadership behaviour)

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Team Interventions• External Relations: (developing outside

relationship)• Self-assessment: (periodic examination of

how well the team is functioning)

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Team InterventionsTeam Building• Get the right people together for• A large block of uninterrupted time • To work on high-priority problems and

opportunities that• They have identified and that are worked

on• In ways that are structured to enhance the

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Team Interventions• Realistic solutions and action plans that

are • Implemented enthusiastically and• Followed up to assess actual versus

expected results

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Team Interventions• Broad Team Building interventionsTeam Building Activities for formal groups

and special groups.Formal Groups: (Intact work teams) Special Groups: (Start up teams, special

project teams, cross functional teams, parallel learning structure)

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Team InterventionsA. Diagnostic Meetings: The purpose to

know “where we are going” and “how we are doing”, and to identify problem to work on.

B. Team building focused on Task Accomplishment Building and maintaining effective

interpersonal relationships

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Team Interventions Techniques and exercises used in Team

Building:• Role analysis Technique: steps1. A set of activities classified as to the

prescribed and discretionary element of role

2. The incumbent’s expectations of the others roles in the group

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Team Interventions• Interdependency Exercise:(Two straight lines of five each are formed

with the lines facing each other)• A Role Negotiations Techniques: Role negotiation intervenes directly in the

relationships of power, authority and influence within the group

1. Contract Selling: The consultant sets the climate and establishes the ground of rules: 13

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Team Interventions2. Issue diagnosis: Individuals think about

how their own effectiveness can be improved if others change their work behaviours.

Each person fill issue diagnosis form stating what he would like the other person in a group to do more of, do less of, or maintained unchanged

3. Influence Trade or Negotiation Period:“If you do X, I will do Y.” 14

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Team Interventions• The Appreciation and Concerns ExerciseSteps:1.Each member of the group jot down one to

three appreciations for the each member of the group.

2.Jot down one or two minor irritations or concerns related to each person that may be interfering with communications.

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Name of InstitutionTeam Interventions3. The facilitators may make some

suggestions 4. Each group member mentions both the

appreciation and concerns about one group member followed by the clarifications

5. The process continues with all the group members

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Team Interventions• Responsibility Charting: The concern is

about, who is to do what, with what kind of involvement by others.

• Visioning: is a term used for an intervention in which group members in one or more organisational groups develop and describe the vision of what they want the organisation to be like in future.

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Team InterventionsSteps1.Each member writes the characteristics

they would like to see in the organisation in one or two years from now.

2.Make the characteristic visible on flipchart and display on the wall.

3.Prepare to answer questions for clarification, without any debate.

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Team Interventions4. A sub-group of three people extracts the

themes from the individual report for further group discussions.

• Force-Field Analysis: is a device for understanding a problematic situation and planning corrective actions.

To move from the current to the desired condition the field of forces must be altered- by adding driving forces or by removing restraining forces.

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Team InterventionsExample of force field analysisCurrent condition: Turnover at plant X

exceeds 35% a yearDesired condition: Reduce turnover to 10%

or less within 12 monthsDriving Forces: 1. Job Security2. Eager to reduce turnover at plant X3. Few large employers in the area

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Team InterventionsRestraining force1. Low starting wages2. Old equipment is hard to operate3. Working conditions are dirty and

dangerous4. No increments until one year on the job

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Team InterventionsSteps 1.Descrie the problematic situation. What is

the current condition and why the changes are required.

2. Describe the desired conditions.3. Identify the driving forces pushing in the

direction of the desired conditions, identify the restraining forces pushing away from the desired conditions.

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Team Interventions4. Examine the forces, which one are strong,

which are weak. 5. Strategies for moving towards the desired

condition: add more driving forces, remove restraining forces, or both.

6. Implementation of action plan

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