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Chapter 14
Managing Quality Improvement
Teams and Projects
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Why employees enjoy teamsLeading teams for quality improvement.Types of teams.Implementing teamsManaging and controlling projects
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Strategic Quality PlanningManaging Quality Improvement Teams and Projects Why Employees Enjoy Teams
In a study of Project Managers, five motivators emerged:
1. Mutuality
2. Recognition for personal achievement
3. Belonging
4. Bounded power
5. Creative autonomy
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Employee Empowerment and Involvement You will have greater control over your
own work You will not be penalized for making
painful change Management is changing and becoming
more contemporary Management is committed to quality
improvement over the long haul
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Employee Empowerment and Involvement Management will concede more control
over company systems to you Management values you ideas and
opinions and will give them serious consideration
Management trusts you and is worthy of trust in return
You will be rewarded for making decisions that benefit the company
Labor is capable of making decisions
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A number of preconditions are necessary for empowerment:
Clear authority and accountability Participation in planning at all levels Adequate communications and information
for decision making Responsibility with authority
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Flattening Hierarchies for improved effectiveness
Too many layers of management Impede creativity Stifle initiative Make empowerment impossible
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Team Leader Roles and Responsibilities Situational Leadership Model
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Team Roles and Responsibilities Belbin’s Team Roles
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Team Formation and Evolution Stages of a Team’s Development
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Team Rules Ground Rules for Effective Teams
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Strategic Quality PlanningManaging Quality Improvement Teams and Projects Types of Teams
Process improvement teams Cross-functional teams Tiger teams Natural work groups Self-directed work teams Virtual teams
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Facilitation
Helping or aiding teams by maintaining a process orientation
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Team Building
Follows a process that identifies rules for team members and helps them become competent
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Examples of Teams:
Navy Seals Massachusetts General Hospital Emergency
Room The Childress NASCAR team
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Meeting Management Steps required to planning a
meeting1. Defining an agenda
2. Developing meeting objectives
3. Designing the agenda activity outline
4. Using process techniques Parking lot
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Conflict Resolution in Teams
Team leaders and project managers spend 20% of their time resolving conflict
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Conflict Resolution in Teams Modes of Conflict Behavior
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Conflict Resolution in Teams
There are 4 stages in the conflict resolution process:
1. Frustration
2. Conceptualization and orientation
3. Interaction
4. Outcome
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Conflict Resolution in Teams Leaders resolve conflict in different ways:
1. Passive conflict resolution
2. Win-win
3. Structured problem solving
4. Confronting conflict
5. Choosing a winner
6. Selecting a better alternative
7. Preventing Conflict
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Conflict Resolution in Teams Avoidance Diffusion Confrontation
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Tools:
Qualifying projects Project Charters Force Field Analysis Work Breakdown Structures
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Qualifying Projects Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) Payback Period Difference between soft costs and hard
costs
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Project Charters Help teams
identify objectives, participants and expected benefits
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Force Field Analysis
Designed to identify and quantify all of the forces for and against organizational change
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Work Breakdown Structures WBS
Identify Precedence Relationships Identify Outcome Measures Identify Task Times
Optimistic completion time Most likely completion time Pessimistic completion time
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Work Breakdown Structure
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Activity Network DiagramsPert Chart:
1. List all tasks
2. Determine task times
3. Determine which tasks depend on the completion of others
4. Draw the network diagram
5. Compute early start and early finish times
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Activity Network DiagramsPert Chart:
6. Compute late start and late finish times
7. Compute slack times and determine the critical path
Slack time = late start – early start
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Tree Diagram of Tasks
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Activity on Node (AON) Network
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Activity on Node (AON) Network with Early Times
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Activity on Node (AON) Network with Late Times
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Arrow Gantt Charts
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MS Project Gantt Chart
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Managing Multiple Projects
Multiple-Project Control Form
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Strategic Quality PlanningManaging Quality Improvement Teams and Projects Summary
Why employees enjoy teamsLeading teams for quality improvement.Types of teamsImplementing teamsManaging and controlling projects
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