Ingenious project management on teamwork & culturel barriers in william estate construction (UK)

Culture has great impact on the organisation at large. It affects the pattern of work and work output, it affects the performance of the organisation in all aspect, but this effect exists not only on the organisational level. It also influences the team performance. Particularly, with the rapidly growing use of teams to achieve several kinds of organisational objectives (Fairfield-Sonn, 2001). Form Annex Associate management wants to improve the performance of its team so as to meet more future challenges that will emerge in nearest future, and will do everything possible so as to maximise its team's performance after careful appraiser of its team performance, the management decided to engage in overall assessment of its design team working performance.

This report is an assessment of the design team. The assessment was divided into three parts. The part one entails the broad description of the structure of organisation and the way the staff functions and interacts. The organisational framework, the organisational capabilities and the strategies used in the implementation of design project. The pattern of communication and information flow between the team member and their integration approach to project was described. Professional nature of the firm was examined so as to know the way it operates. Then there was described the culture of the team that shapes the behaviour of the team over the year and the strategy adopted during the design development.

Also this paper analysis and evaluation of the team performance, which is done by means of the using of the teamwork and cultural model and includes the appraisal of the Williams's estate design process used in, carry out the design project. Then the type of team, carrying out the task, is identified. Also, there was done a review of all the team member roles in the design development, their positive and negative attributes discovered within the project. The development of the lifecycle of the design team is used to demonstrate how the team was formed to the adjourning of the team members. The cultural analysis was carried out to know if the national culture affects the team performance in any way, and to identify the kind of culture in which the team functions. Integrated model was used for analysis of the team performance and of the culture. It was discovered that the team needs to improve its performance so as to meet the changing demands of its clients