One of the primary reasons organizations function in a dysfunctional way is that the departments are staffed with people who have severely different core values. For a team to work, it must have members who share common core values. This means that the Board of Directors must work on agreeing how the team will function - how it will made decisions and how it's members will act. When the team has come to an agreement, then each team member becomes accountable to the entire team.
In my experience, most groups do not go to the trouble to accomplish this. They may very well spell out the vision, mission, and even the values for the organization as a whole, but they fail to agree on the vision, mission, and values of the individual team. If an organization really wants to function well, each and every department (team) must agree on the vision, mission, and values for that team. For example, the marketing department (team) will have its vision, mission, and values statements. The accounting team will have the same. In both cases the visions, missions, and value statements will coordinate with those of the whole organization, but each will be very different.
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