Instructions:
Please, read the case below and respond to the situation/question using concepts from Chapter 16 (See screenshots below). This assignment should be around 500 words including only the answers. I have added Chapter 16 to use for text citation and concepts. Please, one or two citations from chapter 16.
Professor’s instructions: Prior to your analysis, you should provide a
ief summary of the case, a paragraph or so in your own words with in text citations. You then can choose to answer the questions in paragraph form or type the question and then answer it. Either way is fine, but I do require that your answers have in text citations to support what you are saying. Some of the questions are your opinion, but you should also support that with concepts from the text. Format should be APA.
Citation will be:
Brickley, J., Smith, C., & Zimmerman, J. (2016). Managerial economics and organizational architecture (6th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Education.
ANALYZING MANAGERIAL DECISIONS: Why Teams Fail
Along with Mom and apple pie, teamwork has become a sacred cow to American businesses. Yet, one survey by Mercer Management found that only 13 percent of 179 teams received high ratings. “Somehow, we have to get past this idea that all we have to do is join hands and sing Kum Ba Yah and say, ‘We’ve moved to teamwork.’” Many companies are na
owing the focus and time horizon of teams. A team manager at Texas Instruments counsels that not everyone has to be on a team and that only 5 percent of its workforce are on self-directed teams. Harvard Professor Amy Edmonson questions whether many firms “might be barking up the wrong tree” in stressing the use of teams: “I’ve begun to think that teams are not the solution to getting the work done.”
Discuss potential reasons why teams often fail to deliver the hoped for results.
Chapter 16: