ABSTRACT
Management teams can definitely influence the organization through the decisions they make. Studies of the impact of external factors on team effectiveness have primarily examined how different organizational systems influence team performance. The organization’s information systems must ensure that the management team can easily access what it needs know in order to plan and carry out its work. The information should be correct, updated, comprehensible, and relevant to the work the team is doing. For a management team to become effective, members have to be competent, both technically and interpersonally. Hence, the organization should provide the necessary opportunities for training and education, so that both the team and its members can develop their competencies. A large Norwegian enterprise people have worked with for years introduced shared goals as a part of the managers’ scorecards. Team members had shared goals with one or two other team members whenever they were interdependent to achieve the goal.
