Subject category:
Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour
Published by:
Harvard Business Publishing
Version: 15 October 2004
Length: 9 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
Abstract
Describes the formation, selection, and experience of a task force with multi-departmental membership. The problems faced by the task force leader at the end of the case raise issues of: 1) who does the selection; 2) the establishment of group norms, values, and goals; 3) the leadership of a task force; 4) confidentiality and responsibility; 5) individual rivalry; and 6) intergroup conflict and politics. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
Location:
Industry:
Size:
USD400 million sales
Other setting(s):
1992
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Abstract
Describes the formation, selection, and experience of a task force with multi-departmental membership. The problems faced by the task force leader at the end of the case raise issues of: 1) who does the selection; 2) the establishment of group norms, values, and goals; 3) the leadership of a task force; 4) confidentiality and responsibility; 5) individual rivalry; and 6) intergroup conflict and politics. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
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Location:
Industry:
Size:
USD400 million sales
Other setting(s):
1992