Team Management Systems
Team Management Systems ( TMS ) stands for a set of instruments for systemic organizational and personnel development that was developed by the Australian scientists Charles Margerison and Dick McCann in the mid-1980s.
The basis is a personality test based on self-description (also called TMP - Team Management Profile ) with statements on decision-making, information processing, organizational and communication behavior. TMS International Inc. , based in Brisbane, holds the worldwide rights to TMS .
history
Charles Margerison and Dick McCann developed the basic models and tools for TMS between 1985 and 1988 as part of research and consulting activities at the University of Queensland . They then founded the Institute of Team Management Studies (ITMS) in Brisbane , which systematically evaluates and documents empirical research results. In 2003 it had a database of anonymised statements and data from over 151,000 executives and team members from over 160 countries in Asia , America and Europe , which is constantly being expanded. The fundamental finding from the systematic survey of these people was the cross-country, cross-company and cross-team identification of eight work functions ( types of work ), the systematic exercise of which makes a significant contribution to effective teamwork .
In a further development of the theoretical concepts of Carl Gustav Jung and the Myers-Briggs type indicator (now called MBTI Assessment ), the model of work preferences ( English Types of Work Preferences ) was developed, which for the first time places preferred working methods in the context of the work environment. At the same time, it was empirically established that the MBTI itself is not suitable for establishing this connection, since behavior at the workplace and outside the work environment often differ fundamentally. For this purpose, the scientists Charles Margerison and Dick McCann developed a questionnaire for the so-called TMP - Team Management Profile , which enables employees to identify their work preferences in the area of the eight work functions.
The ITMS has published the scientific research data of currently more than 303,000 interviews from more than 190 countries and in over 20 languages in an extensive research manual at regular intervals since 1995 (most recently in November 2010) .
application
The basis for using the team management system is a standardized profile sheet with 60 questions that every member of the team must answer. A report on the work preferences of each person is created from the answers, which should enable a better assignment of the respective tasks in a team.
The team management system is based on the assumption that every team is divided into eight so-called work functions in order to work successfully: Promote, develop, organize, implement, monitor, stabilize, advise and innovate. These are assigned to the employees and in turn divided into the four so-called work preferences of discoverers, organizers, controllers and consultants. They reflect a kind of role that every person on a team would like to take on according to their personality profile and can preferably perform.
Under the so-called linking skills of the team management system, central management tasks and functions are defined that each member of a team can develop in order to connect the team roles identified beforehand. A total of 13 skills such as active listening or delegation are named.
literature
- Marc Tscheuschner, Hartmut Wagner: TMS - The way to a high-performance team . Practical guide to the team management system according to Charles Margerison and Dick McCann. 2nd Edition. Gabal, ISBN 978-3-89749-794-8 .
- Katharine Cook Briggs , Isabel Myers: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator . Mountain View 1976.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ About TMS , TMS Global Website. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
- ^ The Concepts: Work Preferences , TMS Global Website. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
- ^ Jenny Schubert: Team development with the team management system. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Professional Association of German Psychologists, June 9, 2008, archived from the original on September 12, 2014 ; Retrieved May 15, 2013 (609 KB). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
