THE TEAM-BUILDING

IMPACT ON THE ROMANIAN

ORGANIZATIONS

DYNAMICS

Ada Mirela Tomescu

University of Oradea, Faculty of Economics, Oradea, Romania

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INTRODUCTION This paper is not a research

paper, but a presentation of

work experience of a

company* that operate on

Romanian labour market.

*RoMarketing

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Human Resources Development, Training, HR

assessment, Coaching, Team Building,

Consultancy .

INTRODUCTION

Human capital constitutes nowadays the

competitive advantage of many

companies.

Human Resources development has

become a priority in the economical

climate permanently changing,

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INTRODUCTION

The success of a company depends

directly on the expertise and

knowledge of each own employee.

The adaptation implies change,

therefore analyzing the successful

organizations is a must.

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THE IMPORTANCE IF THE

HUMAN CAPITAL IN THE

ORGANIZATION DYNAMICS

On the basis of the theoretical studies and of

our experience we wish to draw attention to

managers concerning key elements on the

organization dynamics such as:

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THE IMPORTANCE IF THE

HUMAN CAPITAL IN THE

ORGANIZATION DYNAMICS

stimulating of the synergy,

team consolidation on the positive trend

through the team members strengths that can

be reached by training programs like team

building.

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THE DYNAMICS OF THE ORGANIZATION &

ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (OD)

The organizational development is:

related to the human resources performance,

development and effectiveness.

a dynamic change process used as a planned

mean of organization effectiveness

improvement for the solving of the problems

and accomplishing the strategic objectives.

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THE DYNAMICS OF THE ORGANIZATION &

ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (OD)

One of the OD most used techniques is team-

building;

TB is a technique designed to help the

members of a group to work more effective.

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WHY A TEAM?

People /emploee are the core element of

organizational dynamic.

The multinational companies practice indicates

the fact that the team must be considered as

being the nucleus of a successful company.

Success organizations anticipate the need of

change and answer to this by a adapted

dynamics to the environment.

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WHY A TEAM?

TEAM VS. GROUP

Elements that determine thetransformation of a group into ateam are: Acknowledging the common purpose;

Assuming the roles within a plannedactivity;

The trust and the openness betweenthe team members;

The desire of taking the risk within theteam, not only as individual;

The loyalty towards the leader andtowards the team etc.

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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE TEAM & ‘THE 7 Cs’

Our work is based on effectiveness of the

team that depends on the existence and

development of so called ‘the 7 Cs’

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THE ‘7 Cs’- THE THING THAT DISTINGUISHES

Clarity of the objective;

Capacity of the team members to accomplish the

objective;

Cooperation between the members of the team;

Co-participation ( meaning - dedication);

Communication;

Continuous improvement;

Creativity.

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EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING BASED ON KOLB CYCLE

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Concrete experimentation

TO TEST

Active experimentation

TO IMPROUVE

Abstract conceptualization

TO CONCLUDE

Reflexive observation

TO ANALYSE

[adapted after Mullins L.J.

TEAM BUILDING

Kolb cycle - work method, applied during the

eight stages that actually form the whole

program of team building.

It is interesting to analyze how that kind of a

program identifies into the Romanian

organizations, and especially, which are the

short-term and medium term results.

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SUCCESFUL PRACTICE INTO ROMANIAN

ORGANIZATIONS

The first meeting with this company occurred in

1997. A group of 12 managers participated to a

team building program; the training program

had been designed by the consultants.

At the beginning of the program we could

described participants’ attitude using the

following words: distrustful, rigid and

suspicious.

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SUCCESFUL PRACTICE INTO ROMANIAN

ORGANIZATIONS

At the end of the ‘game’ the comments were:

‘we are exhausted’, ‘we are not used to outdoor

exercise that much’, ‘we had such a good time’.

There also have been voices that positively

appreciated the defusing of certain conflicts, or

the identification of certain communication

obstacles -and that is pretty much about it.

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SUCCESFUL PRACTICE INTO ROMANIAN

ORGANIZATIONS

If fiveteen years ago the requests for team

building programs were relatively rare.

only 2 companies/year were asking for it, at

the present moment we have increase the

requests 15 times (over 30 firms/year), in

spite that the training and consultancy

companies number in the human resources

field has increased considerably.17

CONCLUSIONS -1

The team forming program is seen:

as a nucleus of a successful company;

link to team activity -benefits, improvement and

their consolidation;

Above elements are reflected in the

organizational dynamics.

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CONCLUSIONS -2

Each teambuilding program is unique(!) just

like the organizations are unique in their own

way.

The positive trend team consolidation must be

realized according to the team members’

strengths.

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CONCLUSIONS - 3

Over the time Romanian managers

understood and consider the fact that the

team building is not a panacea to obtain

the success but is one of the key

elements in the way construction towards

EXCELLENCY.

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FINAL CONCLUSION

Team excellency

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Changes if necessary

Commitment

Team dynamics

Trust

THE TEAM-BUILDING IMPACT ON THE

ROMANIAN ORGANIZATIONS

DYNAMICS

Thank you for your attention!

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The 21st Biennial International Congress

Tourism and Hospitality Industry

Trends in Tourism and Hospitality Management

4th of May 2012

Opatija, Croatia

Ada Mirela Tomescu

University of Oradea, Romania