Assume your organisation wants to create a new office layout that will give each member of staff their own workstation. Ten members of staff will be affected by the changes.
A task team has been called together to prepare a floor plan and to determine which new furniture and equipment should be purchased. The team’s leader, Bryce, is the assistant accountant. The members are the accounts clerk, Marion; the marketing manager, Jenny; the human resource officer, Tom.
Jenny does not want to be part of the team because she has a large project to complete within the next two weeks. Bryce is anxious to have the task completed and the purchases made before the end of the month. Marion realises she will have to collect quotes and prepare the orders. Tom wants the workstations to improve staff working conditions.
a) Assist Bryce to identify and establish 'team purpose' for above project.
b) Suggest to Bryce on how he can allocate roles and responsibilities among the committee members in order to achieve team outcomes.
c) Suggest to Bryce how he can support and encourage team members to take responsibility for their own work in meeting team outcomes.