Cross-Functional Teams: Working with Allies, Enemies and Other Strangers (The Jossey-Bass management series) - Hardcover

Parker, Glenn M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555426093 ISBN 13: 9781555426095

Verlag: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 1994

Inhaltsangabe

Create high–performing teams that achieve amazing results! Implement successful cross–functional teams in your organization. This useful tool kit and book are packed with examples and ideas for effective team building.
The book helps you to successfully develop your own cross–functional teams by using advice from more than 100 companies, including Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Sun Microsystems, the EPA, and many others. You′ll learn how to set goals for shared commitments and how to overcome barriers and obstacles to teamwork.
You′ll learn how to: Develop a plan to implement cross–functional teams Facilitate the launch of a set of new teams Design a training program for team members and leaders Conduct training and team building for new and ongoing teams Work with the senior management team to gain their support for cross–functional teams . . . and much more!
The tool kit gives you: Six invigorating icebreakers Five experiential team–building activities Five insightful assessment tools Five useful abstracts and reports Six detailed case studies . . . and more!
The looseleaf binder format facilitates quick preparation. Photocopy what you need, and you′re ready! With Parker′s help, you′ll create collaboration in diverse groups and discover the cross–functional team advantage.

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Críticas

"It's about time we had a clear and action-oriented book to help our cross-functional teams be more productive. Parker's thirty years of experience as one of the U.S.'s finest team developers is available to us all." (Jerry McAdams, divisional vice president, Performance Improvement Resources, Maritz, Inc.) "Implementing Parker's recommendations for high-performance, cross-functional teams is critical to ensuring the success of this new form of teamwork. This book is a must for anyone charged with managing the future of the business." (John P. Reinhardt, director, quality/productivity development group, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Pharmaceutical Group) "A readily accessible guide to get people working together."

Reseña del editor

A quiet revolution is sweeping across America, making for some strange bedfellows. In many organizations, individuals from a variety of disciplines are working together on cross-functional teams. Building bridges with senior management, overcoming communication barriers, empowering the teams, and forging common goals are some of the greatest challenges to team productivity. Author Glenn Parker has written the definitive practical guide to fluid and productive collaborations. With examples from more than one hundred companies using cross-functional teams successfully - including Merck & Company, Johnson & Johnson, Sun Microsystems, the EPA, and others - Parker offers concrete advice and inspiration to team members, team leaders, and senior management. Cross-Functional Teams delivers a team operating manual to executives, team leaders, human resource professionals, and students of organizational behavior. It provides a tool kit of assessment surveys, worksheets, checklists, and even sample training programs to help launch teams that soar. Cross-Functional Teams offers concrete advice on how to achieve organizational goals by igniting individual creativity and initiative; exploit the competitive advantages inherent in cross-functional teams; build a successful cross-functional team with an effective leader, a clear purpose, an effective training plan, diverse membership, and practical resources; recognize and dismantle team obstacles and build bridges to success; and reward team performance and tackle the sticky issue of performance appraisals.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1555426093
• ISBN 13: 9781555426095
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 254
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