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Motivation: Motivation has an objective to stimulate people to carry out their tasks well. Thus, motivation is focused on the employees’ will and ability to contribute for realizing the organization’s objectives.
Maslow Pyramid: according to this theory, the motivation factors are divided in five groups: physiological, elementary requirements (food, clothes, accommodation, salary), security (safety, health and pension insurance), social requirements (belonging to a group, interaction, a need to be accepted in the circle), respect (to be respected by the others, to feel proud of yourself), self-realization (personal development, person’s autonomy). In order a person to start striving towards higher scales of the pyramid, his/her elementary requirements should be satisfied.
A team is a group of people who act to achieve a certain objective shared by all the members. Qualities of a team compared to a group are: clear objectives, appropriate management (management is a mutual function based on the requirements imposed by the task), appropriate membership (each member of the team with individual knowledge, skills and experiences contributes for the team to have a big capacity); learning (each member learns from his own mistakes and experiences of the other members); a team leader (a member of the team whose role is to lead the team through the process of tasks realization).
Roles in the team: in each team four types of roles are defined: a promoter (offers some creative and new, unusual ideas and new strategies for the team, realizes the things and issues of the team in a non-conventional way), a researcher (an enthusiast, always directed towards the external world, links with the other organizations and teams and brings new ideas, contacts and resources in the team), a coordinator (well presides over the disputes, clarifies the objectives, coordinates the work, allocates the working tasks in the best way, using the potentials of each team member), a shaper (a dynamic leader, shapes the whole way of team work with his energy), a supervisor (critically analyzes the problems and conditions, values the suggestions so that the team can bring good decisions); a team work (mild and cooperative, appreciates good communication and personal relations in the team and personally supports people in the work), an implementer (a disciplined organizer and administrator who turns the ideas into practical tasks, plans, timetables and procedures), a finisher (a conscientious person who takes care of the tasks to be done on time with his sense of efficiency), a specialist (an expert who owns various specialist knowledge of team work).
Group dynamics: Once the team has been established, it passes four phases – a storm of ideas, norm-setting, forming, acting.