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Ch 12: Teamwork at NASCAR
Point your browser to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQQbEfr9irE
http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar/cup/columns/story?columnist=newton_david&id=4654845 and read about how one NASCAR crew team gets the job done.
Questions:
1. What type of team is this? In what stage of team development is this team? Explain your answers.
2. What are 3 elements of effective teams that are present in this team? Explain your answer.
3. How are members of the different subteams motivated to help each other?
Explanation / Answer
Q1. The NASCAR Winston Cup race teams is showed us a SELF MANAGED TEAM or also known as Self Managed work group.which set to organise, Improve Influence and Control its own work situation with minimum Intervention and direction. This involves Highly Integrated groups of several Skilled Individuals whoa re cross trained and have responsibility and authority of important task.
The NASCAR auto racing team is at Performing stage. the structure is fully functional and accepted. Group energy has moved from getting to know and understand each other to performing the task at hand. The Ray Evernham, Crew Chief and Team Manager for Hendrick Motorsports’ DuPont car said that "they were all spark plugs. If one doesn’t fire they could not win the race. So, no matter whether you are the guy that’s doing the fabricating or changing tires and that’s the only job responsibility you have, If you don’t do your job then we’re not going to win. And, no one is more or less important than you are."
Q2. The three elements of the effective Team are as follows:
a) Improving Skills and Knowledge : by high performing equipments, technology, leaderhip , good communication, pit crew and teamwork for the attainment of the common goal.
b). Maintenance roles: They set their own schedules and review their performance as agroup . they set their own work and inspect their own work. They are frequently responsible for acquiring any new training they might need.
c). Throughputs: it refers to the result in task performance and member satisfaction by grioup cohesiveness, decision making process used by the team and the extent of task and maintenance activities performed by the group.
Q3. The different subteams motivated to help each other by sharing the problem of responsibility and By GroupThink which occurs when reaching agreement becomes more important to group member than arriving at a sound decision . Group think is more likely to happen in cohesive groups because there is pressure for confirmity to group norms and members avoid being too harsh in their judgement of felloe team mates, they try to avoid conflict and bickering, which they perceive as a threat of team spirit.