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Building synergistic EDP teams

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Bartol, Kathryn M.
Abstract	A team is termed “synergistic” when the members working together are able to achieve results significantly beyond what could be expected from the same team members working relatively independently. Unfortunately, placing several employees into a work group and calling them a team does not necessarily result in the desired synergy. On the contrary, a team can function so ineffectively as to actually reduce the potential output of various individual members. Therefore, it is not surprising that Powers and Dickson (1973) found no direct relationship between MIS project success and such elements as the systems experience of project personnel or the utilization of a project team composed of MIS staff and user personnel. To achieve a synergistic effect, teams must be carefully built and developed through the assistance of EDP management. This paper draws on the literature related to group behavior, decision making, and organizational structure to identify a number of factors which affect the ability of EDP teams to achieve synergistic effects. Two types of factors are discussed: (1) structural factors and (2) process factors. Structural factors focus on the basic parameters within which the team operates and include team size, appropriate choices of technical expertise, resource allocation, and reward systems. Process factors relate to the ongoing operations and interrelationships of the team and include such elements as interpersonal skills, modes of conflict resultion, and team leadership. Failure of EDP management to concern itself with the structural and process factors of teams could doom the team concept in situations where, with proper attention to team building, a team could deliver the best results.
Starting Page	18
Ending Page	30
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
DOI	10.1145/800100.803230
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1977-08-18
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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