Team Management: Creating and Managing Flexible and Resilient Teams

Leonardo Caporarello

ISBN 10: 8831322575 / ISBN 13: 9788831322577

Published by Egea Spa - Bocconi University Press Okt 2022, 2022

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Neuware - Collaboration and teamwork are the keystones of organizational life. Managing a team requires specific competencies, the outcomes of a process of informed learning based on critical analysis not only of organizational successes, but failures as well. This book provides the tools, the methodology, and the guiding principles to support the people who work in teams as members and as leaders. The main issues inherent to team management are addressed by following a problem-based approach, with the aim of facilitating the achievement of team objectives. The authors encourage readers to reflect on the daily challenges of working on a team, and show how to lay the foundations for building a synergetic team: correctly structuring the team, assigning responsibilities, resolving conflicts, and managing decisions and meetings to optimize negotiation processes. The book also explores the advantages and obstacles to running geographically dispersed teams. Completing each chapter is an interview with an expert who offers answers to the myriad questions that team leaders have to ask themselves to be able to manage their teams with intelligence and common sense.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Team Management: Creating and Managing Flexible and Resilient Teams
• Publisher: Egea Spa - Bocconi University Press Okt 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8831322575
• ISBN 13: 9788831322577
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 228W x 152H x 12D millimeters 228 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 12 millimeters depth
• Weight: 277 grams

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Synopsis

Collaboration and teamwork are the keystones of organizational life. Managing a team requires specific competencies, the outcomes of a process of informed learning based on critical analysis not only of organizational successes, but failures as well. This book provides the tools, the methodology, and the guiding principles to support the people who work in teams as members and as leaders. The main issues inherent to team management are addressed by following a problem-based approach, with the aim of facilitating the achievement of team objectives. The authors encourage readers to reflect on the daily challenges of working on a team, and show how to lay the foundations for building a synergetic team: correctly structuring the team, assigning responsibilities, resolving conflicts, and managing decisions and meetings to optimize negotiation processes. The book also explores the advantages and obstacles to running geographically dispersed teams. Completing each chapter is an interview with an expert who offers answers to the myriad questions that team leaders have to ask themselves to be able to manage their teams with intelligence and common sense.

About the Author

is Professor of Practice of Leadership, Organization and HR, SDA Bocconi School of Management. He is the winner of the 2017 Rotman School of Management (Canada) “Teaching Award.” is an Associate Professor at the Department of Management at Università Bocconi where he is also the Director of the MSc in International Management.