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IB581V: LEADING AND MANAGING HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS (2023-2024)

Last modified: 31 Jul 2023 11:39


Course Overview

The focus of this course is on teamwork in employing organisations, the issues we’ll cover - the principles of effective team performance, team leadership, team participation - are applicable to team activities in most types of setting. In work organisations, teams and team working has long featured in discussions and research about the effective design of work and jobs and the factors associated with high performance in teams.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Second Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Mrs Catherine Andrews

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

Whether at work, at home or in society generally, some form of teamwork features in most people’s lives. We may be a member of a special project team at work, engaged in a neighbourhood community group, involved in a sports team or dealing with the routine of family life. All involve tasks being accomplished and interpersonal interactions occurring.

Whatever form they may take, teams comprise people who work collaboratively to achieve a common goal, are interdependent in the tasks they perform and affect one another’s behaviour through interaction. While the focus of this course is on teamwork in employing organisations, the issues we’ll cover - the principles of effective team performance, team leadership, team participation - are applicable to team activities in most types of setting.

In work organisations, teams and team working has long featured in discussions and research about the effective design of work and jobs and the factors associated with high performance in teams. This is because team working in organisations can bring together the differing employee skills needed to undertake increasingly complex tasks in ever shorter timeframes. At the same time, from the employee’s perspective, participation in effective teams can provide important social and psychological benefits and positive worker attitudes and behaviours relating to job satisfaction, motivation, commitment, quality, absenteeism and labour turnover.

In an increasingly globalised and competitive world, where technological developments are fast-paced and where innovative, disruptive and ground-breaking solutions are sought, teamworking takes on new and important dimensions. This is reflected in the development of global teams operating across different cultures and the dramatic increase of working virtually. By understanding more about teams, teamworking and the building of high-performance teams you will be in a better position to contribute to, facilitate and lead teams.

This course aims to:

• Provide you with a critical understanding of the theory and practice of effective teamworking

• Help you meet the challenges involved in implementing the principles of effective team leadership, developing teams and building high-performance teams


Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Report: Individual

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 60
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Analysing team effectiveness.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualAnalyseExplain the benefits to organisations and individuals of effective teamworking.
ConceptualEvaluateDiscuss the types of obstacles to effectiveness that teams may experience.
FactualUnderstandIdentify the different types of teams and team member characteristics that help organisations to achieve their objectives.
ProceduralAnalyseAnalyse the factors that underpin effective teamworking and by consequence, make appropriate recommendations to maintain or enhance team effectiveness.
ProceduralApplyApply appropriate methods to select, develop, appraise, reward, lead, coach, and mentor team members to achieve optimum team performance.
ProceduralApplyIdentify the requirements necessary to implement an integrated approach to high performance work practices in relation to team development and management.

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 40
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback Word Count 1000
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualEvaluateDiscuss the types of obstacles to effectiveness that teams may experience.
ProceduralAnalyseAnalyse the factors that underpin effective teamworking and by consequence, make appropriate recommendations to maintain or enhance team effectiveness.

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Report: Individual

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
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Analysing team effectiveness.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualAnalyseExplain the benefits to organisations and individuals of effective teamworking.
FactualUnderstandIdentify the different types of teams and team member characteristics that help organisations to achieve their objectives.
ProceduralAnalyseAnalyse the factors that underpin effective teamworking and by consequence, make appropriate recommendations to maintain or enhance team effectiveness.
ProceduralApplyApply appropriate methods to select, develop, appraise, reward, lead, coach, and mentor team members to achieve optimum team performance.
ProceduralApplyIdentify the requirements necessary to implement an integrated approach to high performance work practices in relation to team development and management.
ConceptualEvaluateDiscuss the types of obstacles to effectiveness that teams may experience.

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