TEAM ORGANIZATION

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 484.

In organizations that operate with team structures, both permanent and temporary teams are used extensively to accommodate tasks. Cross-functional teams bring together members from different functional departments or areas of work responsibility. Organizations such as General Electric, Ford, and Intel are trying to utilize teams as basic building blocks of new organi­zational structures as a way of changing more traditional vertical structures in favor of more horizontal ones.

As illustrated in Figure 11-9, a team structure involves teams of various types working together as needed to solve problems either on a part-time or full-time basis.