Ways in Which the Use of Teams Helps Cadbury Achieve its Strategic Aims and Objectives
1) Explain the meaning of the “terms” and “groups”.
Teams
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A team is a group of people with a common purpose who have
complimentary skills.
Working as a team has many advantages such as:
* Distributing the workload
* Reinforcing individual capabilities
* Creating partipation and involvement
* Improve productivity and pride in what they do
* Respond more quickly to change
* Reduce middle management level
* Draw on expertise of members.
There are two types of teams:
Formal – a formal team is created for a specific purpose e.g.
The employees at Cadbury world work as a formal team because they work
together to meet their aim of ‘creating brands that people love’
Informal – an informal team develops in a less structured way e.g. a
group of students at Josiah mason college may start a discussion on
the way the teachers teach and are not happy with it they might get
together and do something about it.
Groups and teams are similar, however, teams require coordinated
effort while individuals may work independently in groups.
Groups
A group is when two or more people work together on a certain task
E.g. a group of students work together to form a presentation.
But a group doesn’t have to work together or achieve something a group
can also mean something else for e.g.
There can be two different places in a café one for smokers and one
for non-smokers
1 Describe the ways in which the use of teams may help the
organisation achieve its strategic aims and objectives.
Working as a team: advantages of a teamwork and cooperation and to
identify and understand the stages of team development. For a team to
achieve its goals, its members must do more than just carry their own
weight. They must involve, support, and share information with there
team mates. And they must commit to the success of the entire team,
not simply their own success. Working as a team clearly teaches
employees the personal, interpersonal, and organizational advantages
of working together whether in teams or work groups.
Advantages of working as a team
* Distributing the workload
* Reinforcing individual capabilities
* Creating participation and involvement
* Improves motivation
* Share knowledge and understanding
* Provides opportunity for managers and supervisors
* It also encourages innovation
I will use Cadbury as an example to describe the ways in which the
use of teams may help the organisation achieve its strategic aims and
objectives.
Cadbury Schweppes aim is:
‘ Work together to create brands that people love’
Objectives.
• Promote ethical business practices
• Respect the environment and communities in which we operate
From personal experience the word team is best described as a group of colleagues focused together to solve a challenge and effectively reaching an outcome that goes beyond the team’s original expectations as well as those of the client/customer and...
Thompson, Leigh L. “Making the Team” A Guide for Managers. New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc, 2011. Print.
We learned about the phenomenon of Groupthink, which is a group usually makes decisions that are proven disastrous and in hindsight people agree that it is flawed from the onset. Groupthink as we have learned can happen anywhere from being with friends which we call peer pressure, to companies, corporations and especially government institutions. For our learning journal assignment, we have to find and read or own examples of groupthink disasters and the one that came to mind to me was Coca-Cola’s changing of the Coca-Cola’s recipe in the 80’s. The question that popped in my mind is, is that an example of groupthink decision making?
Charles Chocolate’s sales revenue decreased -1.176% between the years 2010 and 2011. The equation that as used to get that was Revenue Growth= 100 × (Current Value-Prior Value/Prior Value) 100 × (11,850,480-11,991,558/11,991,558). The change in the sales revenue could have happened for very many reasons. Being a premium chocolate making company, their product may not have been very high in demand. Also forecasting the demand for their product was not a very easy thing to do either. Another issue that Charles Chocolate’s faced their competitors, such as Godiva and Lindt, are more of a well known brand then they are.
In addition to urgency, Gustavsson could not create a powerful guiding coalition. He established a cross-functional team to develop a new moisture-resistant product. But the team did not include a sales manager who knows customers' needs and eventually sells the product. Although the team developed a commercially-viable product, their efforts, at least in the short term, were unsatisfactory, because with sales people's own doubts about the new product, they were afraid of jeopardizing the reputation of current product. Moreover, these cross functional teams operated within the established organization maintained the company's dominate culture and past norms. We know that structurally independent teams that are tightly integrated into the existing hierarchy with different cultures and processes are often more successful.
Sainsbury’s (2014) states they put their “customers at the heart of everything we do and have invested in our stores, our colleagues and our channels to deliver the best possible shopping experience. Our strong culture and values are part of our identity and integral to our success.” Sainsbury’s brand is established upon providing quality at fair prices, the importance of fresh, healthy, safe and tasty food is put very high at Sainsbury’s. Sainsbury’s also offer a range of up to 30,000 products such as household products, food, grocery, and even its own products.
Hutchinson, Paul. "Building Effective Teams." OB 221 Lecture. Boston University School of Management, Boston. 12 Feb. 2014. Lecture.
...ification as we move towards our destination IT architecture, and further strengthen our global market presence” said Neil Cameron, chief information officer at Unilever.
Teamwork is one of the important component that is required in any types of business organization . Team is defines as “a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to the common purpose, performance goal, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable”(katzenbach and Smith 1993) . Teamwork offer numbers of advantages like in teamwork work are completed earlier because large task are divided into smaller projects and then it find out an individual who is best for doing the jobs. Tasks that are smaller in size also need less time and brainpower then the work is less sporting to the people who are working. Teamwork also helps in combing the unique skills of people and makes them work efficiently. In a teamwork strength of different people are combined for the benefit of entire team and to produce better product and teamwork also help in building the unity among the group member .In a teamwork relationship play an important role because it helps people to communicate properly with one another whereas friendship helps in creating a job satisfaction. Support system is also important because if support system will be stronger than people will be comfortably depend on each other. These are the advantage of the teamwork but in teamwork there are also disadvantage like in teamwork there is an uneven participation of the members because they depend on other for doing the majority of work this can lead to hatred in the workplace. In a teamwork everyone is not team player, as they cannot perform well while team is working because they want to do there own so they might face problems to get fitted in a certain work culture, which will result in displeasure. In teamwork there is less creativity among th...
Organisational change can arise due to a change in strategy and this begins with examining capabilities and the internal environment. This is portrayed in the Strategy diamond. Firstly through arenas the organisation can plan where they will be active in and which part to place most emphasis on for example technologies or value creation strategies. Only after determining this can they implement a positive change, leading to the next element, vehicles to get them where they need to be such as alliances. This can lead to change in management along with strategic partnerships, and the way managers transition to this change will determine if the strategy impacts on the overall organisation in a way that reinforces its purpose and goals. Partnerships indicate how an organisation can strengthen its capabilities by merging with businesses who possess the skills they lack. (Carpenter et al. 2010)
When we think of the word team, individually many different ideas may come to mind about what a team really is. Some may think of an NFL team (Tennessee Titans), an NBA team (Sacramento Kings), or a NASA astronaut team with such pioneers as Edwin Aldrin, Jr. and Neil Armstrong as members. You might even think of the U.S. Navy, Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, or Marines as teams. In fact they all are, and they have a great deal in common as teams. However, for the purposes of this paper I will examine the characteristics of work teams, as they apply to organizations and I will supply answers to the following questions: What is a team? Where did the team concept come from? What are the types of teams? What are the advantages and disadvantages of having teams in organizations? What does it take to make a team effective?
Organizations use teamwork because it increases productivity. This concept was used in corporations as early as the 1920s, but it has become increasingly important in recent years as employ...
Many businesses place an emphasis on the importance of teamwork. A good team consists of people with different skills, abilities and characters. A successful team is able to blend these differences together to enable the organisation to achieve its desired objectives.
be used in both large and small groups. It would work well in a large
Teamwork is one of the important component that is required in any types of business organization . Team is defines as “a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to the common purpose, performance goal, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable”(katzenbach and Smith 1993) . Teamwork offer numbers of advantages like in teamwork work are completed earlier because large task are divided into smaller projects and then it find out an individual who is best for doing the jobs. Tasks that are smaller in size also need less time and brainpower then the work is less sporting to the people who are working. Teamwork also helps in combing the unique skills of people and makes them work efficiently. In a teamwork strength of different people are combined for the benefit of entire team and to produce better product and teamwork also help in building the unity among the group member .In a teamwork relationship play an important role because it helps people to communicate properly with one another whereas friendship helps in creating a job satisfaction. Support system is also important because if support system will be stronger than people will be comfortably depend on each other. These are the advantage of the teamwork but in teamwork there are also disadvantage like in teamwork there is an uneven participation of the members because they depend on other for doing the majority of work this can lead to hatred in the workplace. In a teamwork everyone is not team player, as they cannot perform well while team is working because they want to do their own so they might face problems to get fitted in a certain work culture, which will result in displeasure. In teamwork there is less creativity among th...