The Effect of Team Building and Organisational Perormance of Standard Chatered Bank
CENTRAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
THE EFFECT OF TEAM BUILDING AND ORGANISATIONAL PERORMANCE
OF
STANDARD CHATERED BANK
DATE………
Declaration
We declare that this long essay is a result of our own research carried out from the department of management studies of the central university college. All references cited in this research have been duly acknowledged.
We are solely responsible for any error found in this research.
Mrs Clara Amo-Mensah
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Supervisor
Elsie Agyekum Dogbo
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Student
Gladys Otae Addo Osei
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Student
Dedication
Acknowledgement
TABLE OF CONTENT
Abstract
A Team is formed when two or more people come together for a purpose. Armstrong et al, (1996) defined teamwork as when two or more individuals work responsibly together or in isolation to achieve a goal or an objective. These people work with either complimentary or diverse skills and their performance and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable. The size of most teams ranges from Six (6) to Eighteen (18) (Wharton 2006). Unlike work group, which depends on a supervisor for direction, a team depends on its own members to provide leadership and direction. It can also be organized as department.
A number of factors are contributing to an increasing emphasis on teams, including the increasing availability and affordability of information and communication technology and demands for making work more flexible by reducing its dependence on location (Williams and Curtis, 2007).Many organization have flattened their structure and delegated responsibility in order to cut cost and utilize the skills of the
THE EFFECT OF TEAM BUILDING AND ORGANISATIONAL PERORMANCE
OF
STANDARD CHATERED BANK
DATE………
Declaration
We declare that this long essay is a result of our own research carried out from the department of management studies of the central university college. All references cited in this research have been duly acknowledged.
We are solely responsible for any error found in this research.
Mrs Clara Amo-Mensah
…………………………..
Supervisor
Elsie Agyekum Dogbo
…………………………
Student
Gladys Otae Addo Osei
……………………….
Student
Dedication
Acknowledgement
TABLE OF CONTENT
Abstract
A Team is formed when two or more people come together for a purpose. Armstrong et al, (1996) defined teamwork as when two or more individuals work responsibly together or in isolation to achieve a goal or an objective. These people work with either complimentary or diverse skills and their performance and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable. The size of most teams ranges from Six (6) to Eighteen (18) (Wharton 2006). Unlike work group, which depends on a supervisor for direction, a team depends on its own members to provide leadership and direction. It can also be organized as department.
A number of factors are contributing to an increasing emphasis on teams, including the increasing availability and affordability of information and communication technology and demands for making work more flexible by reducing its dependence on location (Williams and Curtis, 2007).Many organization have flattened their structure and delegated responsibility in order to cut cost and utilize the skills of the
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