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Are You a Team Player?
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As covered in this chapter, teams are the organizational unit of choice today. Auto companies have design and production teams. Hospitals have patient care teams. Team policing is practiced by many law enforcement agencies. Airlines have ground crew teams. Current and future managers (indeed, all employees) need to know as much as possible about teams and teamwork. The purpose of this exercise is to continue building your knowledge of workplace teams and to assess your readiness for Internet-age teamwork.
Instructive Updates on Teams and Teamwork
For interesting and useful material on teams and teamwork, go to Fast Company magazine's free online archives at www.fastcompany.com/backissues and do searches for team oriented key words such as "teams," "teamwork," "virtual teams," and "self-managed teams." Alternatively, you can search the tables of contents of recent issues of Fast Company for relevant reading.
Assess Your Teamwork Readiness
Want to know how ready you are for today's team-based organizations? You can get a quick indication by completing test at www.queendom.com Go to www.queendom.com and in the search box on the top right type in "Team vs. Individual Orientation Test ".
Click on the "Team vs. Individual Orientation Test" link and agree to personal use only. You can then begin the test. (Note: Our use of this site is for instructional purposes only and does not constitute an endorsement of any products that may or may not suit your needs. There is no obligation to buy anything.) Complete the 74-item test and read the commentary concerning the scoring for your test.