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Questions for Critical Thinking 1. Don’t teams create conflict? They do create different levels of conflict. Teams void of conflict can become stagnant, disinterested, and inactive. Isn’t conflict bad? Not necessarily; conflict can actually improve team effectiveness. Relationship conflicts: those based on incompatibility or personal differences can be dysfunctional. On the other hand task conflicts: Those based on performance or team concepts, and team disagreements are not harmful to the team. Task conflicts stimulate discussions, encourages critical assessment of problems and options and can lead to better team decisions. Task conflicts can actually be beneficial to teams because they reduce the development of groupthink. Why, then, would management support the concept of teams? Teams can be very effective if designed and given the proper guidance and the right amount of freedom to work effectively. Managers can use teams to accomplish tasks that individuals may not be able to efficiently complete. Teams can multi-task and get more work or processes completed with less effort and with fewer personnel than if individual group members took on these tasks. If managers can select the team members and have interpersonal skills; ability to work with others, communication skills, good listening skills, feedback, and being cooperative with others as basic requirements, they can then develop the team to accomplish group tasks, and to work effectively together to complete the mission. Also, managers need to incorporate problem-solving and decision-making skills with conflict resolution and interpersonal skills to build a strong team. 2. Are there factors in the Japanese society that make teams more acceptable in the workplace than in the United States and Canada?
Approximate Word count = 1018
Approximate Pages = 4.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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