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The Business Skills Handbook
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The Business Skills Handbook

by Roy Horn
November 2009
Beginner
536 pages
14h 58m
English
CIPD - Kogan Page
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CHAPTER 5

Working in Teams

group and team theory

effective team behaviours

high-performance teams

the politics of teams

why teams fail

project teams

leading teams

5.1 INTRODUCTION

In university life most of your actions and outcomes will be individual and your success will be individual. This contrasts with work, where most of your actions and outcomes will be achieved in groups or teams. Whether driven by culture or performance, most twenty-first-century organisations use teams and groups to achieve organisation goals. The skills involved with teamwork are taught in university but very seldom practised. If we follow one of our skill definitions relating to a well-practised set of actions, ...

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