Running head: TIME MANAGEMENT AND TEAM BUILDING SKILLS

Time Management and Team Building Skills
Dr. Felicia Wilson
Shorter University
“Team Trial-Pack”
Leevirt Agee, Lillie Momon, Kenyoda Pullen & Diane Williams
March 27, 2012

Annotated Bibliography of Time Management Article
Mpofu, E., DAmico, M., & Cleghorn, A. (1996). Time management practices in an African culture: Correlates with college academic grades. Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science, 28(2), 102-112. http://search.proquest.com/docview/220529772?accountid=13843
This peer reviewed article was retrieved from the Proquest Social Science Journals database. Written in 1996, it is entitled, “Time management practices in an African culture: Correlates with college academic grades.” It was initially published in the Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science by Elias Mpofu, of Educational Psychology and Special Education at the University of Zimbabwe. Other contributing scholars were Miranda D’Amico and Ailie Cleghorn, both of the Department of Education from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. The article’s basic purpose is to compare time management practices of 472 student-teachers from the Shona culture of Zimbabwe, with practices of western cultures in relation to college grade results. This was done by using 2 western time management models (“The Briton and Tesser” and “The Macan Model”) to correlate Zimbabwean cultural factors along with gender, age, grade point average, and year of study.
The conclusions were that time management is a multidimensional construct and should be perceived from a mono-cultural perspective. College grade results basically remained the same. This means that time management variances cannot be gauged by one culture’s standard. We as “Team Trial Pack” (Leevirt Agee, Diane Williams, Lillie Momon, & Kenyoda Pullen) view the findings of this article applicable to our roles as teammates. The article is a microcosm of our learning team—we are all different. We disagree with the “no hurry” approach of the Zimbabweans, but we confer with its emphasis on effectiveness and efficiency.

Annotated Bibliography of Team Building Skills Article

Page, D., & Donelan, J. G. (2003). Team-Building Tools for Students. Journal of Education for Business, 78(3), 125-128 http://search.proquest.com/docview/202821531?accountid=13843

This article was retrieved from the Proquest database of the Journal of Education for Business. Basically, this article discussed several ways a team can establish effective team building skills. The importance of building an effective team is to set strategic goals and have an effective plan of action. This is done by requiring that each team member be held accountable for his or her role within a team setting.
This article list several tools that can be utilized in establishing effective team building skills. For example: effective communication (oral and written), collaborating ideas within the team, and ensuring that the team is working for the same common goal through understanding the task at hand. In addition, learning to resolve conflicts and acceptance of constructive and non-constructive criticism are effective tools as well. This article was very insightful and beneficial for students working within a team or group setting. Based on this information, we were able to reflect on our own learning team. It helped us gain a complete understanding of how to use effective team building skills, thus identifying our strengths and weaknesses through ensuring a fair distribution of the work load. I would highly recommend this article for students, companies, or families in order to have effective team building skills.