Oxfam Team Structure and Operations

This assignment delves into the structure and operation of teams within Oxfam. It examines their purpose, objectives, goals, roles, responsibilities, and strategies for encouragement and performance management. The document also explores contingency plans for managing situations and the process of hiring new team members.

TEAM PLAN

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1) Team purpose, objectives and goals.......................................................................................1
2) Team roles and responsibilities...............................................................................................1
3) Strategies used to encourage team members..........................................................................2
4) Information from line management shared with team...........................................................2
5) Decisions made with team......................................................................................................2
6) Performance reported and documented..................................................................................3
7) Finding and hiring the right person.........................................................................................3
8) Three contingency plans for managing situations..................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4
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INTRODUCTION
Team refers to an ability of organisation as well as person in order to coordinate the
group of people for performing a particular task. Oxfam is a voluntary business firm in which all
people work together. Under this given report mentions about the roles and responsibilities of
team in Oxfam organisation. .
TASK 1
1) Team purpose, objectives and goals
Oxfam is a charitable organisation and its main focus is on alleviation of poverty
globally. In this firm, there is a team which works together for poor people.
Team purpose of Oxfam- Its purpose to assess develop lasting and effective solution to
an injustice of poverty (Xu and et. al., 2012).
Objective of Oxfam- Its objective is to remove poverty from all over the world. Firm
empowers people so that their future will be secured.
Oxfam Goals- The major goal of people is to bring positive change in livelihood of
individual who are living poorly.
2) Team roles and responsibilities
Roles
 Main role of team is to ensure safety of participants at the time of event
 Team members should fulfil the needs of participants
Responsibilities
 Work on the basis of organisational procedure
 Get involved in the training programmes (Hoever and et. al., 2012)
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3) Strategies used to encourage team members
Strategies for encouraging team members are as follows:
Include them in decision making- To encourage the employees, it is an effective
method. Manager should involve them in decision making process so that they can do their work
in an effective manner (9 Super Effective Ways to Motivate Your Team, 2017).
Training- Training helps in improving the abilities and skills of staff members. From
this, their performance level will get improved.
Problem solving- If at workplace, any conflict arise, then in this case, manager should
use appropriate problem solving techniques (Bradt, Check and Pedraza, 2011).
4) Information from line management shared with team
Line manager will communicate information to team leader in order to convene work
which has been allotted to team members. However, the allotted work must be done with due
care. Team leader will influence the team members effectively so that they can work
accordingly.
5) Decisions made with team
The team leader of Oxfam must make his/her decision after sharing information to their
team members and decisions will be taken on the basis of majority of votes of team members.
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Illustration 1: Organisational chart of Oxfam

6) Performance reported and documented
Performance of a particular team is evaluated by using various parameters and the team
leader will oversee performance of each staff members in an effective manner so that appraisal
can be rendered to them on the basis of their performance.
7) Finding and hiring the right person
For vacant place, manager in Oxfam searches new candidates who are capable for that
position. Regarding this, Oxfam follows the hiring process and finds a capable person who is
skilled, knowledgeable and the one who is able to the work in a team (Brooks and et. al., 2013).
8) Three contingency plans for managing situations
Outsourcing- If Oxfam faces the problem of shortage of team members then in this case,
company will outsource its work, so that the routine work will not get hamper.
Optimum use of existing members- Under this, workload will be enhanced on existing
members due to the shortage of them.
Giving voluntary rewards- By this, existing members could feel motivated due to extra
earnings for their extra efforts.
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the report that team of Oxfam works on reducing poverty
from country. This report is about an Oxfam organisation. Under this report studied about roles
and responsibilities of team. .
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REFERENCES
Books & Journals
Bradt, G. B., Check, J. A. & Pedraza, J. E. (2011). The new leader's 100-day action plan: how to
take charge, build your team, and get immediate results. John Wiley & Sons.
Brooks, N. and et.al., (2013, May). An approach to team programming with markup for operator
interaction. In Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents
and multi-agent systems (pp. 1355-1356).International Foundation for Autonomous
Agents and Multiagent Systems.
Hoever, I. J. and et.al., (2012). Fostering team creativity: perspective taking as key to unlocking
diversity's potential. Journal of applied psychology. 97(5). 982.
Xu, C. and et.al., (2012). Energetic zinc ion chemistry: the rechargeable zinc ion battery.
Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 51(4). 933-935.
Online
9 Super Effective Ways to Motivate Your Team. 2017. [Online]. Available through:
<https://www.inc.com/peter-economy/9-super-effective-ways-to-motivate-your-
team.html>
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