Webster University
Jessica Linnen
September 4, 2012
HRDV 5560
Professor T. Worku

“The Team Player” The video about teams was a very realistic view of how teams are made up at organizations. The definition of the word team is a group of people with a full set of complementary skills required to complete a task, job, or project. You have a know it all, a person who doesn’t care, a skeptic, and a person it that it who it never matters to. A team should consist of people who are there to reach a common goal. We are supposed to be a team at my job, but our team was a little dysfunctional. Not being able to work together without one person always wanting to look like the champ. My manager often says our department is a team, but how can you feel like you are part of a team when you have one particular member who’s seems to be working to reach their own goals instead of what’s good for the team and organization. A team is supposed to work together to reach goals not put its members down. We have a team member whose goal it is to make sure they are always looking good, even at the expense of a fellow team member. It’s nothing wrong with looking good, but as a member of a team you should be working to make sure the team’s goal is met and you can look good along with everyone else. What good is it for one team member to look good but the team fails?
Of course everyone else knew what the team member was doing, but the manager could not see it because in his eyes her job was always done. The bad part about the whole thing is team suffered, but the organization paid the ultimate consequence. We were fined something that team member was doing something wrong and it ended up costing the organization a major amount of money. Let’s just say that team member is no longer a part of part of thee organization. In the end one team