2. The Jones Group ($6/ applicant). The Jones group is a France-based consulting

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2. The Jones Group ($6/ applicant). The Jones group is a France-based consulting company that has recently opened an office in the U.S. They've been using a test to predict teamwork behaviors of factory workers in French companies. The test, which has a test-retest reliability of.92, has been found to be correlated with supervisor ratings of teamwork behaviors (r-62). Teamwork Unlimited ($8 / applicant). TU recently constructed this test and used it to select individuals to work in self-managed work teams at a factory that manufactures televisions (not yours). Their brochure features a testimonial from the CEO of that company, who said: "before I used the Teamwork Unlimited Teamwork Test , we had fights among our employees all the time. Since we've been using the TUTT to screen out those who aren't team players, we haven't had a single altercation among our employees 3.

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For he Jones group: It shows that the test -retest reliability is good but the correlation is negative .The reliability of the scores is ascertained by the magnitude of relationship between the data points. The strength of the relationship will be detrmined by the cefficient of correlationship which should be 1 if the relationship is linear and the test results are highly consistent. Through this method we are focussing on the magnitude of agreement between the time points rather than the relationship.There can be a high correlationship with low degree of agreement or a low correlationship with high degree of agreement. The lack of agreement needs to be summarized through calculation of bias.The test might not consider the issue of cultural differences due to workplace diversities, behavioral stereotypes arising out of diverse beliefs, habits , cultral myths , divergent views and thought process.

For Teamwork unlimited: There are highly likely chances of lobbying and collusion and singling out individuals through colluded responses to the test. The results may not be true representation of the behavioral aspect of the employees. There can be multiple issues which may not get surfaced like lack of cross functional accountability, no single point of accountability,misguided interpretations and lack of context which compounds the issues.

The pros can be increased autonomy and flexibility leading to more creativity, innovation .

Appropriate frameworks need to be implemented to govern the self managed team and align with the company objectives.

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