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Managing People and Organizing Teams

Managing people and organizing teams involves selecting and inducting new staff, improving motivation, evaluating team structures, and using appropriate leadership styles. Understanding organizational behavior and motivation theories can help explain human behavior and improve motivation through goal setting, feedback, job design, and considering factors like skill variety and autonomy. Effective teams have defined roles like chair, plant, and monitor evaluator. Group performance depends on tasks being additive, compensatory, disjunctive, or conjunctive. Decision making can be structured or unstructured, and good leadership uses styles like connection and information power. Organizational structure considers formal vs informal structures and departmentalization.

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Managing People and Organizing Teams

Managing people and organizing teams involves selecting and inducting new staff, improving motivation, evaluating team structures, and using appropriate leadership styles. Understanding organizational behavior and motivation theories can help explain human behavior and improve motivation through goal setting, feedback, job design, and considering factors like skill variety and autonomy. Effective teams have defined roles like chair, plant, and monitor evaluator. Group performance depends on tasks being additive, compensatory, disjunctive, or conjunctive. Decision making can be structured or unstructured, and good leadership uses styles like connection and information power. Organizational structure considers formal vs informal structures and departmentalization.

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Managing people and Organizing Teams

Select and Induct new staff into a project Increase staff motivation Improve group working Evaluate the characteristics of the various team structures Use the most appropriate leadership styles.

Introduction
Some objectives can health and safety during the project Project leaders might have little control over organizational structure The scope and nature of objectives can be set in a way that will enhance staff motivation Many risks to project success relate to staffing

Understanding Behavior
People with practical of projects invariably identify the handling of people as an important aspects. Organizational behaviour has evolved theories has evolved theories that try to explain peoples behaviour. If A is the situation then B is likely to result In the real world there will be a wide range of influence on a situation. Many invisible to the observer.

Organizational Behaviour
Taylor three basic objectives To select the best people for the job. To instruct them in the best methods To give incentives in the form of higher wages to the workers. Theory X holds The average human has an innate dislike of work

Condn..
There is a need therefore for coercion ,direction and control People tend to avoid responsibility. Theory Y The average human has an innate dislike of work Commitment to objectives is a human can learn to accept and further seek responsibility.

Recruitment process
Create a job specification Create a job holder profile Obtain applicants Examine CVs Interview etc Other procedures

Motivation
Motivation models Taylorist Model Maslows Hierarchy of needs Herzbergs Two Factor Theory Hygiene or maintenance Factors Motivators

Expectancy Theory of motivation


Expectancy Instrumentality Perceived value Oldham Hackman Job Characteristics Model Skill variety Task identity Task significance

Condn
Autonomy Feedback Methods of improving Motivation Set specific goals Provide feedback Consider job design Job enlargement Job enrichment

Working in groups
Becoming a team Forming Storming Norming Performing Adjourning The chair The plant

Condn..
The monitor evaluator The shaper The team worker The resource investigator The complete finisher The company worker Good Team Member Be flexible The restrained

Group performance
Additive tasks Compensatory tasks Disjunctive tasks Conjunctive tasks Group Depends on Someone coming up with the right answer The others recognizing it as being correct

Decision making
Structured Unstructured Some mental obstacles to good decision making Faulty heuristics Escalation of commitment Information overload

Measures the reduce disadvantages of group Decision


The cooperation of a number of experts is enlisted The problem is presented to the experts The experts record their recommendations The collected responses are recirculated The Recommendations are collated and reproduced

Leadership
Coercive Connection Legitimate Reward Expert power Information power Referent power

Leadership Styles
Directive autocrat Permissive autocrat Directive democrat Permissive democrat

Organizational Structure
Formal versus informal structure Hierarchical approach Staff versus line Departmentalization Differentiation Egoless programming Chief programmer teams

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