The teams may be ad hoc or permanent and include members from the same or different departments. Team participation by non-supervisory employees is voluntary but participation may be required of leadership, professional, and staff employees. Membership may change dependent upon the talents and skills needed by the team to fulfill its purpose. Members are committed to achieving management s specific charge to the team. The team uses repetitive and systematic methodology and tools to conduct its work.
Members are committed to meeting or exceeding internal and external customer needs.
All employees of the Team-Based Organization are referred to as members. Everyone in the organization is a member of a Natural Work Team. The TQM process is employed to great advantage to help insure the continuous improvement of all of the organization s performance measures. Added improvement strategies and quality system elements that complement the specific type of organization can also be incorporated into the model. Most modern improvement strategies and technologies work best when implemented and used by teams.