Abstract
Now days companies are trending to re-organize their workforce into teams. With this inevitable trend, managers have to pay more attention to the way they form the teams. These team have brought empowerment and competitiveness to the companies, making this trend a very desirable one. Managers are using techniques like MBTI and the Maslow¡¦s Hierarchy to ensure optimal productivity within the group. This paper intends to demonstrate the outcome of the simulation Managing Individual Performance and the way that these two techniques were used to get to this outcome.
Managing Individual Performance
Success in any project depends completely on the way that every member of a group performs. Being able to select the right member for a group is very critical. In many cases the leader will tend to select people very similar to him, but in reality, when putting together a team we should be looking for diversity. The best team is composed of people with opposite styles, they have good people skills and they are willing to contribute to the project. Team members roles are defined and they know they have the capacity to create new ideas (Bateman, 1990).
There are many criteria to consider when selecting an effective team member. The personality types are one of the most important criteria that a leader should have. There are four types of personalities that should be included in the group.
?h The action-oriented type- this type of personality are driven by
action. They hit the floor running. They are ready for any type of job.
?h The analytical type- this type will not act until they have pondered every
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