Managing Individual Performance
Managing Individual Performance
In the business world today, the team concept is being used to reach an organization’s goal. Certain criteria are looked at when leaders are choosing a particular team. Hsieh and Bear (1996) believe that leaders need to use their ideas and experience to draw upon when choosing team members. Choosing the right mix of team members for the task to be completed can be associated with positive team performance, member satisfaction, and cohesion according to LePine, Piccolo, Jackson, Mathieu, and Saul (2008). Team members should possess good communication skills, dedication and commitment, and have the motivation to work with the team for the desired goal. LePine, Piccolo, Jackson, Mathieu, and Saul (2008) also believe that members should have similar knowledge skills, be able to outline the objective and develop the goal, evaluate progress and have the motivation to complete the desired task. Having similar skills will help with cohesion, but having diversity of skills will benefit the creativity of completing the task as long as the team has the motivation.
I made several runs of the simulation trying different variations of the team for the program DARE. The team I ultimately found to be the best group of individuals to form the team was John Conner, Lisa Stafford, Nicola Minelli, and Tony Wu (UOP, 2008). John was chosen to build team files, Lisa was chosen to moderate self help groups, Nicola to perform follow-ups and Tony to supervise confrontation sessions. John was a football player in school so I believe he has a strong concept of what team participation includes. His personality attributes from his Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) (UOP, 2008), from the simulation includes learning new tasks by talking and doing, interacting with people, provide connections and meanings, able to analyze logically and understand apply principles consistently, able to plan work and follow plan and able to focus on a timely...
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