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Brock, S. E., McAliney, P. J., Ma, C. H., & Sen, A. (2017). Toward more practical measurement

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ABSTRACT

Recently, teamwork is indispensable criteria of each employee for hiring in order to work in any

organization. While only minority of team achieve its goal, almost workers do not know what

they are supposed to do in a team. As the result, many working team were not successful.

Therefore, some instruments were used to measure team statistics: Teamwork-KSA, Acumen

team skills, MBTI, FIRO and TKI. All those instruments met criterion including free and easy to

use. However, to be more accurate, we have to compare result of those instruments to literature

instrument. There was a study, which were in English, were conducted at Indian energy

company, among a group of 16 managers. They had experiences in manager for many years. The

main purpose of this study is that what is attributed to make a successful team. A questionnaire

was used to evaluate teamwork skills of working experts and education workers. On average, an

evaluation showed that each participant to be at least an “effective team person”. The

preliminary result of the study showed that effective working together is impossible without

communication among members, and listening is a key contributor to team success. The author

also mentioned the importance of understanding each other’s pros and cons and of encouraging

each member. In conclusion, after comparing, the experiences of manager, who participate in a

study, match a result of team instruments. However, organization struggle to use measurement to

improve team’s productivity. Therefore, introducing new measurement to manager is necessary

in order to run company in efficient and effective way.