Team-based

Organizations
Main Characteristics

• Workforce is handled by groups

• Emphasizes the importance of all members of the organization
• Employees have more autonomy and authority
• In order to achieve goals employees must trust each other
• Managers define goals but allowing members how to meet these requirements
Advantages

• Better communication in the organization

• Solving problems become easier and fast
• More flexibility than traditional organizations
• Employees can maximize their skills
• The role of each member becomes understandable, and helps to achieve the stablished
goals
Disadvantages

• Personality conflicts between team members

• Some employees work better than others
• Instability in the group because of the constant changes
• Conflicts, tension and stress
• More requirements for leadership management
Structure
 NIIT Limited

• Origin: India
• Industry: learning management and training delivery solutions to
corporations
• Strategy of team-based structure applied in the e-learning division
• Teams representing market segments such as corporate, higher education,
high-tech and so on depending on special learning needs of each segment.
• RESULTS: reduction in delivery time and client satisfaction
Recommendations

• The change from a traditional, hierarchical organization to a team-based organization

requires redesigning the organization‖ (Mohrman et al.,1995, p. 37).
• Before implementing the team-based structure, the company or the department must be
evaluated to determine if it is going to have positive or negative results. The multiversity
companies will have to struggle more with this type of structure, because of the
differences by each individual.
 Stages of the Team Based
Work TBW

Obtained from: Introduction to Team Based Organizations

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/content/BPL_Images/Content_store/Sample_Chapter/9781405106115/001.pdf
CONCLUSION

• The activity of a group of people working cooperatively to achieve shared goals via
differentiation of roles and using elaborate systems of communication is basic to our species.
• Increases the communication between leaders and other members of the organization.
• Allows to all members to share their knowledge and become more involved in the company
to do more tasks.
• Sometimes can be challenging because of the diversity of the employees that can led to
stress, and internal differences.
References

• http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/content/BPL_Images/Content_store/Sample_Chapte
r/9781405106115/001.pdf
• https://smallbusiness.chron.com/advantages-disadvantages-teambased-organizations-253
70.html