WORKING IN TEAM

ENVIRONMENT
HoP LN 21 L-II
By Woderyelesh Yeshiwas
January,2020
Project-E
 Outline
3. Work as a team member (Information Sheet 3)
3.2 Workplace Context
3.3 Team Activities and Objectives
3.4 Understanding of team’s role and objectives
3.5 Understanding of individual skills and contributions
3.2 Workplace Context
3.2.1 Work procedures and practices
• A successful team sets performance targets, milestones and ways
(methods) to achieve their targets.
• The team needs to invest time and effort into developing working
techniques, methods, procedures and ground rules to move the team
towards its goal.
• These includes techniques for making decisions, solving problems and
generally coping with anything which gets in the way of progress.
• Points you should follow when you work in team ;-
1. Identify work process, start with high impact areas first
• Don’t chart process that will soon change
• Work process must be well defined
- Fewer than 10 activities implies the definition is too narrow
- Greater than 25 activities implies definition is to board
2. Determine the decision and activities to chart
• Avoid obvious generic or ambiguous activities, such as;
“Attend meetings” or “Prepare reports”
• Each activity or decision should begin with a good action verb
3. Prepare a list of roles or people involved in those tasks
• Role can be individuals, groups or entire departments
• can include ppl outside your department or outside the company
(customers, suppliers etc.)
• Roles are better than individual names
4. Develop the chart
• For larger groups or more complex issues, an independent facilitator
is required
• Meeting time can be significantly reduced if a list of decisions and
activities is completed prior to meeting.
- The ideal group size is 4-10 ppl (to develop the chart)
5. Get feedback and buy-in
• Capture their changes and revise chart as appropriate
• Update as necessary on a on-going basis
- A follow-up meeting may be necessary if significant changes are made
3.2.2 Conditions of Work Environments
• Working Conditions are the conditions in which an individual or staff
works, including but limited to such things as facilities, physical
environment, stress and noise levels, degree of safety or danger, and
the like.
• The term work environment is used to describe the surrounding
conditions in which an employee operates.
• It can be composed of physical conditions such as office, temperature
or equipment
• It can also be related to factors such as work process or procedures.
3.2.3 Legislation and Industrial Agreements
Employment protection developments 1993-2016
• The Paternity Leave and Benefit Act 2016: 2 weeks leave within 6 months
• Protected Disclosure Act 2014: Protect employees who make disclosures
about wrongdoing in the workplace from penalization.
• Protection of Employment (Temporary Agency Work) Act 2012: provides all
temporary agency workers to have equal treatment(rights) as everyone,
regarding working time, rest periods, annual leave and pay.
• Employees (Provision of Information and Consolation) Act 2006:
Employees’ right to information and consolation about the dev’t of their
employment's structure and activities.
• Parental Leave (Amendment) Act 2006: amends the parental leave Act
1998
• Safety, health and welfare Act 2005: consolidates and update the
health and safety law. The change includes the provision for higher
fines for breaches of safety legislation.
• National Minimum Wage Act 2000: introduces an enforceable
national minimum wage.
• Unfair Dismissals Act 1993: updates unfair dismissals law and amends
previous legislation dating from 1977.
3.2.4 Standard work practice
Constructive criticism : based on logic and rationality
• Intended to help the team its members grow in competence
• This encourages face-to-face skills associated with coaching and
giving feedback.
There are two possible problems exist for very successful teams
1. Maybe seen as so competent therefore attract more work than
they can handle .
Resulting overload and decline in performance
2. Complacency: difficult to respond to new circumstances
• Guard against this by fairly regular turnover to keep them on their
toes
3.2.5 Guidelines (Team leader)
• Determined by tasks demands on skills and other resources
• Effective team leader establish a set of values
• Its requires crucial listening role and communication b/n the
organization and the rest of team. (the link man)
• Requires the transition of ideas into operationally useful information
• Effective team leader ensures optimum use of resources
• Willingness to genuinely delegate : trust, encourage members to push
their existing skills on further and to take reasonable risks in doing so
• Flexibility of approach: follow for a leadership style that “fits”
prevailing circumstances.
3.3 Team activities and its objectives
• Having team-bonding activities. Celebrate events like birthdays
• Basically, what ever its that you do, do it as a team!
• Group thinking phenomenon: sprit is strong
Which leads to decision make as a team
3.4 Understanding of team’s role and objective
• In team you typically have ppl with an collection of talents and life
experience.
• Clear objectives are very important in team work.
• The teams overall objectives needs to be identified which allows each
member in the team to understand the common goal.
• The team leader has an important role in communicating the clear
picture of what the organization expects from the team.
3.5 Understanding of individual skills and contribution
• Every team member have their own skills
• When everyone contribute their skills, the team do a great work.
• Emphasis should be given on the strength of members, the positive
Not on what they can not do.(it would waste if time)
• Team members experienced real strength from their membership and
the sharing of goals.
• Membership is highly valued and member behavior is strongly
influenced by considerations of the team success.