Tactical planning, 166, 169

• v. strategic planning, 167, 167t

Task groups, 345

Task measurement, 449

Task-related activities, 11

Team-building, 361–362

• exercises, 353

Teams, 352

• adjourning, 356

• communication, 358

• cross-functional teams, 354

• defined, 353

• development of, 355–356, 361

• effectiveness, 356, 357f, 361

• forming, 355

• groups, 353

• learning organization, 459

• norming, 355

• organization-related steps, 356

• people-related steps, 356

• performing, 355

• problem-solving teams, 353

• self-managed teams, 354

• storming, 355

• task-related factors, 357

• trust and, 357–358

• types of, 354f

Technical skills, 10

Technology, 403, 448

• change, 153, 245

• ideas, 493

Telecommuting, 256

Testing

• achievement tests, 226

• aptitude tests, 226

• guidelines, 227

• personality tests, 226

• vocational interest tests, 226

Tethered workers, 256

Theory X-Theory Y, 327–328, 335

Third-country nationals, 86

Tokenism, 58–59

Total power, 397

Total Quality Management (TQM), 492, 500, 502

• defined, 495

• model, 497f

Tracking sensors, 448

Training programs, 59, 227–228

• administering, 229

• coaching, 230

• computer-based, 230

• designing, 229

• evaluating, 230–231

• lectures, 229

• management games, 230

• on-the-job training, 229–230

• position rotation, 230

• process, 228f

• programmed learning, 229

• special project committees, 230

• topics, 228t

Trait approach to leadership, 292

Transformation, production and, 417

Transformational leadership, 303–304

• steps for, 304

Transnational organizations, 95

Trend analysis, 431

Triangular management, 457

• model, 458f

Trust

• in leadership, 282

• team effectiveness, 357–358