ABSTRACT
Management teams exist as a means for helping the organization and the members of the team to succeed. They are not designed primarily to create team viability. Team viability is, however, an important means for creating excellent task performance and individual well-being and growth. The first criterion for being an effective management team is that the results produced by the team make a significant and positive contribution to the success of the organization—in other words that the results create substantial added value for the organization. The second area in which an effective management team achieves results involves its individual members. An effective team creates added value by contributing to the well-being, learning, and growth of the individual members. Effective management teams ensure that the organization functions as an aligned and well-coordinated system and not as an aggregate of independent business units.
