What is Empowered Team?
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Executive Summary A new business environment is driving a deeper commitment to team building. Businesses today must compete in a worldwide arena in which information and technologies are widely distributed and rapidly applied to new products and services. The rapid innovation required to meet these competitive pressures dictates a more effective approach to idea generation and development. While businesses are coping with challenges of this new "fast-paced era", they must also be dealing with the unceasing demands for higher productivity, improved service and better quality. These combined demands necessitate a greater degree of coordination and communication among employees - levels that can only be achieved through empowered, quality teamwork. The purpose of this report is to examine the notion of teamwork. It focuses on the various categories of team, the benefits of empowered team and the practices of teamwork in many successful organizations today. General Electric's Aircraft Engine,...

