In: Operations Management
In general, teams can be described three ways. Name and define each.
Functional team: The team which is meant to do a project with its members all skilled in each aspect of the functions management tasks is the functional team. The leader, in this case, would be the functional manager with the other leaders under them to make the business function successful. The accounts or the Information technology for the business represents the functional groups or teams which have a function in the business with the right people in the team.
Cross-Functional Team: The team is made up of various people from various departments to conduct a specific job. Thus in accounts, there may be people who are also responsible for the housekeeping of the office as a whole with members from different functional teams is a cross-functional team.
Contract Team: The project may need a team that is needed for some time in the project. The business would hire a contractor for the members of the team to do the short term job. A supervisor from the business would monitor the team and its work of the members of the contractual team.