WORK IN A TEAM ENVIRONMENT

This module covers the knowledge, skills and attitudes of a

team member; their roles and responsibilities within a team. It
also contains the techniques to work effectively with colleagues
in a socially diverse environment. It is one of the specialized
modules of Basic Competencies.
TEAM, OBJECTIVES, PARAMETERS AND ROLE

Learning Objectives:

1. Differentiate team from a group.

2. Identify team objectives, parameters and
roles of a team.
 Team vs. Group
Team
• People working together towards a common goal who coordinate
their work amongst themselves. Teams normally have members
with complementary skills and generate synergy through a
coordinated effort which allows each member to maximize his/her
strengths and minimize his/her weaknesses.

 
Group
• People working towards the goal whose work is coordinated by
someone else (e.g. manager) for them. A group in itself does not
necessarily constitute a team.
Unique Characteristics of a Team:

1. Must have an agreement or a reason for working

together.
2. Members must be interdependent, each needing one
another’s experience, abilities and commitment in
order to reach the common goal.
3. Must be committed to the idea that working together
produces more effective decisions.
4. Must operate as a functioning unit within the larger
organizational context.
TEAM PARAMETERS
 
8 Dimension of Team
Participation

Openness Collaboration

Effective
Work-group
Facilitation Flexibility
Interpersonal
Relations

Commitment Sensitivity
Risk-Taking
 TEAM OBJECTIVES

Why are team objectives important?

• Team objectives are the basis of the team’s planned

work. 
• Team objectives should be the starting point for the
employee objectives set as part of the performance
management process.
• Team objectives provide the basis for talent and
resource planning.  They dictate the resources needed.
 TEAM ROLE

People
1. Resource Investigator: Extroverted, enthusiastic, and
communicative. Explores opportunities and develops
contacts that can help the project.
2. Team Worker: Cooperative, mild, perceptive and
diplomatic. Listens, builds, averts friction and calms
the waters.
3. Coordinator: Mature, confident and a good team
leader. Clarifies goals, promotes decision-making and
delegates well.
Action/Task

4. Shaper: Challenging, dynamic, thrives on pressure. Drive

and courage to overcome obstacles.
5. Implementer: Disciplined, reliable, conservative and
efficient. Turns ideas into practical actions.
6. Completer-Finisher: Painstaking, conscientious. Seeks
errors and omissions. Delivers on time.
Thinking

7. Plant: Creative, imaginative, unorthodox. Able to

solve difficult problems.
8. Specialist: Single-minded, self-starting, dedicated.
Provides knowledge and skills in
rare supply.
9. Monitor-Evaluator: Sober, strategic, discerning.
Sees and evaluates options.
Judges accurately.
Individual Role and Responsibilities in a Team

• Task Focused Behavior

– Behaviors that assist with the accomplishment of
the task or assists with the process.
• Maintenance Behaviors
– Behaviors that focus on the members of the group
• Disruptors (or Interrupters)
– Behaviors that get the group off-task or make the
process difficult; it may be behaviors that are
directed to a particular individual within the group
 Gender Sensitivity in a Team
Gender Roles- refer to the activities that both sexes
actually do.
– They are reinforced by the gender values, norms and
stereotypes that exist in each society.
– Gender Roles can and do change
– Gender Roles are learned behavior in a given society,
community or social group in which people are
conditioned to percieved activities, tasks and affected by
age, class, caste, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, or other
ideologies, and by the geographical economical and
political environment.
Sex Role
• Is the function or role which a male and female
assumes because of the basic physiological or
anatomical differences between the sexes.

Gender Stereotypes
- Are the ideas that people have on what boys and
men, girls and women are capable of doing.