Teams and organizational culture

• "Sometimes being a team-player goes counter to the corporate culture. If the organizational norm is 'do your own thing', then working together may not be valued and certainly not recognized and rewarded" (TPT) 
• "Superior work teams recognize that consistently high performance can be built not on rules but only on values" (DSWT) 
• Current Methods of Developing a Team-Player Culture: (TPT) 
  • Public statements by Top Management 
  • Important assignments 
  • Training and Development 
  • Promotion 
• Recommended Methods of Developing a Team-Player Culture: (TPT) 
  • Promotion ... let everyone know that it was because the person was a team player 
  • Upper Management as Team Player models 
  • Performance Appraisal ... 'team player' is in performance plan in more specific terms 
• "Rating and ranking systems that pit employees against each other in the annual performance review process tend to work against the development of teamwork. A ranking system that includes a requirement for a bell-shaped-curve distribution further emphasizes competition over cooperation." (TPT) 
• "In some competitive environments, team players withhold technical information from their colleagues because they fear loss of an 'edge' in annual performance appraisals" (TPT)