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BSBWOR502 - LEAD AND MANAGE TEAM EFFECTIVENESS
Activity 4
3-What might be some barriers for a manager in creating a self-managing team? List four.
The first involves technical skills that relate to work performance. In the first two stages of our team development model, the accent seems to be on learning these skills. A second important set of skills concerns social abilities that relate to management tasks. During the latter two stages of our model, the emphasis seems to be on learning these skills. A deficiency with respect to these two sorts of abilities may limit the development of self-organization. The second pool of barriers pertains to the attitudes of the workers. These attitudes are related to their psychological needs. Workers may have social needs in the form of significant social relationships, or growth needs, such as a desire for personal accomplishment, learning, and development. A third source of resistance related to the psychological factors mentioned above is the skills and learning abilities of the workers involved. At last, planning, preparation, ongoing communication and follow-up are all necessary for a transition towards self-managed team working. For a self-managed team to remain successful, its members must be tolerant of errors and allow for learning, and there must be trust both within the teams and between the team members and team leader