1.) Describe the criteria necessary for firms to achieve sustained competitive advantage through people.
To achieve sustained competitive advantage through people, organizations have to invest in human resources (Mahmood, 2015). HR will be responsible for hiring the right people for the right job, creating an exceptional workplace culture that talent wants to be part of, developing an environment in which workers have cognitive incentives to further develop their skills and thus enable the organization to differentiate itself from what competitors are doing and so on. Effective and efficient use of human capital is at the heart of every organization’s success.
2.) Discuss the different forms of employee teams.
There are a variety of different teams in the workplace: department teams, problem-solving teams, virtual teams, cross-functional teams, and self-managed teams. Department teams typically contain individuals who specialize in a certain function—for example, back-end web development in IT. A team will consist of several persons from the same department all equipped with the same skills working on a project for the department. A problem-solving team could be made of people from various organizations tasked with addressing a specific issue—like what to do when the global economy crashes as happened in 2007. A virtual team consists of workers who are not physically located at a job site but instead are all over the world and perform their jobs independently while communicating digitally. Cross-functional teams are inter-departmental teams that come together to assist in a goal that comprises the work of several departments—such as a new product launch. Self-managed teams are empowered to make decisions on their own so that they can take ownership of a project (Capsim, 2015).
3.) Identify and discuss some of the desirable traits of a trainer.
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