EFFICIENCY MODELS OF THE CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TEAMS

Abstract

Cross-functional teams represent a characteristic of the new organization form of the enterprises, imposed by the complexity of the present environment. Regardless their kind, the new organization forms are based on the cross-functional teams as an innovation source and reunion of competences. Only by the medium of the cross-functional teams, the new organizational partnerships obtain flexibility in their actions and fastness in their reactions. By their features, the cross-functional teams should be differentiated from any kind of work-group. What makes them different is the common effort carried to reach the common objective of the team. The present paper presents two research models for the efficiency of the cross-functional teams, respectively input-process-output and input-mediator-outcome models. These show the factors on which cross-functional teams’ managers should action to obtain superior economic performances.

Keywords

• Cross-functional Teams
• Efficiency
• Model
• Input
• Process
• Output
• Mediator