8.3.2 Team Building

It has received the most attention and OD practitioners have great faith in team building. Essentially, team building is an attempt to assist the work group in becoming adept by learning how to identify, diagnose, and solve its own problems. It directly focuses on the identification of problems relating to task performance and lays down concrete plans for their elimination. A team building programme deals with new problems on an ongoing basis. It is an effective technique by which members of an organisational group diagnose how they work together and plan changes that will improve their effectiveness.

The goal of team building is to perfect the operation of individuals as a team, not to teach each of them as an independent, ...

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