Abstract
This paper documents that process of forming a team tasked with updating employee policies for a geographically dispersed corporation. The paper will first give some background information on the company and define the type of team being created. Then, the paper will focus on building the team, starting with the leader. Then it will identify the planning required of the leader before the team can start operating. Next, the team startup activities will be addressed followed by a description of the operational concept for the team during its existence. The final section will identify some of the problems the team may encounter due to the logistics of working in a geographically dispersed fashion. This portion of the document will also discuss possible resolutions to those problems.
Background Information
First, some background information on the team being discussed in this paper should be supplied. The team will consist of employees from a medium sized corporation. This corporation employs 400 people and maintains two locations approximately 250 miles apart. The main office houses three-quarters of the staff, while the remote office is home to the remaining quarter. The charter for the team is to analyze the current employee policies from both locations, propose updates to policies that are out-of-date and recommend consolidation of duplicate policies. The team will have six months to complete their work and then present their findings to upper management, who will make the final determination on policy changes.
To start our analysis we should first define what a team is and identify the type of team best suited for this scenario. The most generic definition of a team ...