Chapter 7
TEAM EFFORT: LEARNING IN SPECIAL TEAMS
WHAT IS IT?
A special team is typically a cross-functional group of people with varied levels of skills and experience, often from different organizational units, brought together to accomplish a task. Special teams are usually temporary, ad hoc teams that dissolve once their specific goal is accomplished, as opposed to permanent work teams that perform set recurring functions in an ongoing fashion within an organization.
Several names exist for special teams, some of which are quite similar in function. We can trace the origins of the different names and the distinctions that may have existed in the past, but the reality is that names are often used interchangeably, depending on the organizational ...
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