Managing Human Resources, Eight Edition

 You Manage It! 5: Emerging Trends One Job, Many Roles

Teamwork is how many organizations operate today. Rather than being independent contributors, team members have some degree of interdependence and share in getting the work done. The informal reality in many teams is that tasks or responsibilities are allocated depending on the relative strengths and weaknesses of the team members. For example, a technical problem faced by a team might be allocated to the team member who has the best technical skills, whereas a potential conflict is given to the person with the best interpersonal skills. The informal reality is that team members often end ...