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Benefits of Management Team
Building
By:
Thomas Gordon |
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Individual members of an organization
will be more identified with the
goals of the organization and concerned a bout its success if they
participate in making decisions about those goals and how to reach
them.
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Being a member of a management team gives its members a feeling of
greater control over their lives; it frees them from the fear of the
leader's arbitrary use of power.
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When group members participate in
solving the group's problems, they learn a great deal about the
technical complexities of whatever the group's task is; they learn
from each other, as well as from the leader. Developing a management
team is the best kind of ongoing staff development (in-service
training).
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Participation on a management team provides opportunities for the
members to satisfy many of their higher-level needs for self-esteem,
acceptance, and self-actualization.
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A management team helps break down status differentials between the
members and the leader, which fosters more open and honest
communication between members and leader.
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A management team becomes the principal vehicle enabling the leader to
exemplify the kind of
 leadership behavior he or she wants the group
members to learn and use in relationships with their subordinates.
In this way
effective leadership moves down the level of organizations.
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Higher-quality decisions often result from bringing into play the
combined resources of the work group.
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What is a Management Team?
“Even in the best companies, a so-called top
team seldom functions as a real team,” says Jon R. Katzenbach.
The necessity of building a
management team is central in the concept of
leader effectiveness. The management team is the entire work group as an
integral unit (rather than an aggregate of individuals), governing itself
within the area of freedom allowed by its position in the organizational
hierarchy.
Members of the management team should be
strategic thinkers able to see the big
picture, have
diverse experience, demonstrate
leadership attributes, combine business insight with technical savvy,
and be committed to continuous learning.
They should also have a common vision
of the future, be good team players who are committed to creating superior
value for all
stakeholders –
customers,
employees,
investors and
society as a whole – by
getting the best from their people and leading
continuous innovation.
Large organizations are made of
several of many inter-locking management teams.
The CEO
and all the executives reporting directly to him or her would be a
management team. But at other organizational levels, managers and
supervisors and all workers reporting to them respectively would also form
management teams. The same person may be a
leader in one management team and a group
member in another.
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As far as
Jack Welch, the legendary former CEO of GE, is concerned, middle
managers have to be
team members
and coaches. "They have to
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people and know when to celebrate. Managers should be energizers, not
enervators"1. In the company's 1993 Annual Report, Welch began
talk openly about taking steps against those managers who couldn't learn to
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