Structures and Development Stages for Successful Teamwork at Salty Pawz

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Structures appropriate for Salty Pawz expansion
The first team structure is the Chief Programmer team, in this structure there is an
overall leader who is tasked with partitioning the tasks into various small activities and then
assigns them to the team members. Wanda can for instance have the chief programmer as one
of the persons here, say the full-time treat baker. His task will be verifying the activities done by
different team members which may comprise of; a part-time web master and a support
technician, a part-time shipping/receiving clerk, a part-time marketing and promotional
manager. He/she would be the source of authority and would also act as a general supervisor
(Clinton, 77).
The second team structure that Wand could adopt is the democratic team structure. As the
name suggests, there should be a manager that provides administrative leadership while some
other identified managers provide technical leadership. In this case for instance, Wanda herself
might be the Manager, and the other identified managers could consist of persons such as the
fulltime sales manager, the fulltime administrative assistance. It is also important to note that
this type of structure leads to higher morale among the team members and also improved job
satisfaction (Driskell, 59).
The other possible team structure that can be adopted by Wand is the mixed control team
organization. As the name suggest, it draws its ideas from the chief programmer organization
and the democratic organization which may include persons like the fulltime sales manager or
the fulltime administrative assistance. It may also consist of two part-time retail clerks. One
part-time book-keeper,one customer service representative and two part-time baking
assistants.It is also important to note that in this structure the chief programmer organization is
the overall leader and democratic organization reports to him (Clinton, 107).
Development stages expected for the new teams
Forming-Here, the personal relations are fully characterized by dependence (Bonner et al,
17).Each group member looks at the leader for guidance. It is a stage that the team members
have a desire of being accepted by the team and need to know that the team is indeed safe. It
majorly involves orientation and the tasks likely to be performed by each member of the group
are identified.
Storming-Usually characterized by a lot of competition and possibly conflicts that are
interpersonal and task related. It can also result to conflicts of leadership, structure authority
and power; some members try to dominate the team while others remain completely silent.