Management Team Strategy Plan

2. Identify the team formation strategy that is most suitable for Riordan Manufacturing, and provide the rationale for the decision. Your response should be at least 100 words.

At Riordan Manufacturing the belief among the superintendents is that teams are the essential way to keep job duties distributed and to the completion of task by their deadlines. The formation of teams will begin with current employees and additional new hires. The objective of the teams is to begin production of the newly designed CardiCare Valve at the Pontiac Michigan facility. The purpose of this paper is to identify the available strategies to begin formation of the teams. More than likely there will be additional challenges and barriers that may occur down the road. Another important issues is how to discuss the strategies and what will be the criteria that will determine the best strategy. In order to ensure effectiveness processes and procedures need to be put into place so that each team's success can be actively measured.

3. What potential barriers may arise during team formation? How will you address these barriers? Your response should be at least 100 words.

The barriers that are most likely to occur during the formation of teams may include: poor planning, bad attitudes, poor training, poor leadership, poor relations between team members, and lack of recognition. Overcoming such barriers can be difficult but the best way to combat the issues is to create specific goals and objectives that allow for a standard to be put into place. The addition of a standard allows you to actively measure progress, future goals and objectives for the team. These individual team goals and objectives must be inline with the goals and objectives of the company as a whole. This overarching goals and objectives are most commonly established by upper management and executives and then trickle down through departments