Facilitate Work Teams: Theories, Models, and Roles

Facilitate Work
Teams

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Team plays an important role in the completion of a particular project or work. Team is
related to group of a person developed for a particular task assigned responsibility by higher
level management. The team should contain members having similar mind set and vision.
Managers of company carry out the duty of development of team. This report consists of
different theories and models of team development (van den Hout, and Davis, 2019). It involves
importance of team in organisation. For the practical application of team development, Tesco plc
is taken which is a British multinational company. It has its headquarter in Welwyn garden,
London. Tesco performs their business activities in grocery and merchandise retailer.
MAIN BODY
Due to the changes in business environment the importance of team development is
increasing. It plays an important role in business activities. In 1965, a scientist named Bruce
Tuckman analyses the significance of team development and develops a theory called Tuckman
theory of team development. This theory provides knowledge related to different stages of team
development and the brief discussion on these stages are given below.
Forming: - This is the first stage of team development describes by Tuckman. This stage
includes more focus on goals, objectives, rules, timelines and roles of each team member. The
dependency of team members in charge is high in this stage because all members are new in this
stage and none has complete knowledge about the project.
Storming: - It is a second stage of team development after the introduction of team. The real
introduction of task is introduced in this stage. This stage is regarded as the most thrilling stage
of team development because all the disagreements and conflicts between team members arise in
this stage. The reason behind this scenario is different visions and perception of team members.
It is a duty of the managers to act as negotiator and solves problems arises in teams to achieve
goals of organisation.
Performing: - After the solution of all disagreements and conflicts, the stage of performing is
start. This is the working stage of team. All team members work for the completion of task
assigned by managers with their great strength. The level of motivation is high among members
in this stage and the requirement of managers becomes less in this stage.