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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.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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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
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 60 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
2,000-word critical reflection essay |
Word Count | 2000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Analyse | Explain the benefits to organisations and individuals of effective teamworking. |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Discuss the types of obstacles to effectiveness that teams may experience. |
| Factual | Understand | Identify the different types of teams and team member characteristics that help organisations to achieve their objectives. |
| Procedural | Analyse | Analyse the factors that underpin effective teamworking and by consequence, make appropriate recommendations to maintain or enhance team effectiveness. |
| Procedural | Apply | Apply appropriate methods to select, develop, appraise, reward, lead, coach, and mentor team members to achieve optimum team performance. |
| Procedural | Apply | Identify the requirements necessary to implement an integrated approach to high performance work practices in relation to team development and management. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 40 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
1,000-word case-based essay |
Word Count | 1000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Evaluate | Discuss the types of obstacles to effectiveness that teams may experience. |
| Procedural | Analyse | Analyse the factors that underpin effective teamworking and by consequence, make appropriate recommendations to maintain or enhance team effectiveness. |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
2,000-word essay |
Word Count | 2000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Procedural | Apply | Apply appropriate methods to select, develop, appraise, reward, lead, coach, and mentor team members to achieve optimum team performance. |
| Procedural | Apply | Identify the requirements necessary to implement an integrated approach to high performance work practices in relation to team development and management. |
| Procedural | Analyse | Analyse the factors that underpin effective teamworking and by consequence, make appropriate recommendations to maintain or enhance team effectiveness. |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Discuss the types of obstacles to effectiveness that teams may experience. |
| Conceptual | Analyse | Explain the benefits to organisations and individuals of effective teamworking. |
| Factual | Understand | Identify the different types of teams and team member characteristics that help organisations to achieve their objectives. |
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