This document discusses the impact of team-building on organizational dynamics in Romania. It notes that human capital is now the main competitive advantage for companies, and that organizational development techniques like team-building can help improve employee performance and organizational effectiveness. The document then describes a successful team-building program conducted in 1997 by a Romanian company, noting how employees' attitudes changed from distrustful to enjoying the experience. It concludes that Romanian managers now better understand that team-building is a key element for constructing excellence within organizations.

1. THE TEAM-BUILDING
IMPACT ON THE ROMANIAN
ORGANIZATIONS
DYNAMICS
Ada Mirela Tomescu
University of Oradea, Faculty of Economics,
Oradea, Romania
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21st Biennial International Congress
Tourism and Hospitality Industry
Trends in Tourism and Hospitality Management
4th of May 2012
Opatija, Croatia

2. INTRODUCTION
 This paper is not a research
paper, but a presentation of
work experience of a
company* that operate on
Romanian labour market.
 *RoMarketing
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 Human Resources Development, Training, HR
assessment, Coaching, Team Building,
Consultancy .

3. INTRODUCTION
 Human capital constitutes nowadays the
competitive advantage of many
companies.
 Human Resources development has
become a priority in the economical
climate permanently changing,
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4. INTRODUCTION
 The success of a company depends
directly on the expertise and
knowledge of each own employee.
 The adaptation implies change,
therefore analyzing the successful
organizations is a must.
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5. THE IMPORTANCE IF THE
HUMAN CAPITAL IN THE
ORGANIZATION DYNAMICS
 On the basis of the theoretical studies and of
our experience we wish to draw attention to
managers concerning key elements on the
organization dynamics such as:
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6. THE IMPORTANCE IF THE
HUMAN CAPITAL IN THE
ORGANIZATION DYNAMICS
 stimulating of the synergy,
 team consolidation on the positive trend
through the team members strengths that can
be reached by training programs like team
building.
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7. THE DYNAMICS OF THE ORGANIZATION &
ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (OD)
The organizational development is:
 related to the human resources performance,
development and effectiveness.
 a dynamic change process used as a planned
mean of organization effectiveness
improvement for the solving of the problems
and accomplishing the strategic objectives.
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8. THE DYNAMICS OF THE ORGANIZATION &
ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (OD)
 One of the OD most used techniques is team-
building;
 TB is a technique designed to help the
members of a group to work more effective.
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9. WHY A TEAM?
 People /emploee are the core element of
organizational dynamic.
 The multinational companies practice indicates
the fact that the team must be considered as
being the nucleus of a successful company.
 Success organizations anticipate the need of
change and answer to this by a adapted
dynamics to the environment.
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WHY A TEAM?

10. TEAM VS. GROUP
 Elements that determine the
transformation of a group into a
team are:
 Acknowledging the common purpose;
 Assuming the roles within a planned
activity;
 The trust and the openness between
the team members;
 The desire of taking the risk within the
team, not only as individual;
 The loyalty towards the leader and
towards the team etc.
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11. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE TEAM & ‘THE 7 Cs’
 Our work is based on effectiveness of the
team that depends on the existence and
development of so called ‘the 7 Cs’
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12. THE ‘7 Cs’- THE THING THAT DISTINGUISHES
 Clarity of the objective;
 Capacity of the team members to accomplish the
objective;
 Cooperation between the members of the team;
 Co-participation ( meaning - dedication);
 Communication;
 Continuous improvement;
 Creativity.
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13. EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING BASED ON KOLB CYCLE
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Concrete experimentation
TO TEST
Active experimentation
TO IMPROUVE
Abstract conceptualization
TO CONCLUDE
Reflexive observation
TO ANALYSE
[adapted after Mullins L.J.

14. TEAM BUILDING
 Kolb cycle - work method, applied during the
eight stages that actually form the whole
program of team building.
 It is interesting to analyze how that kind of a
program identifies into the Romanian
organizations, and especially, which are the
short-term and medium term results.
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15. SUCCESFUL PRACTICE INTO ROMANIAN
ORGANIZATIONS
 The first meeting with this company occurred in
1997. A group of 12 managers participated to a
team building program; the training program
had been designed by the consultants.
 At the beginning of the program we could
described participants’ attitude using the
following words: distrustful, rigid and
suspicious.
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16. SUCCESFUL PRACTICE INTO ROMANIAN
ORGANIZATIONS
 At the end of the ‘game’ the comments were:
‘we are exhausted’, ‘we are not used to outdoor
exercise that much’, ‘we had such a good time’.
 There also have been voices that positively
appreciated the defusing of certain conflicts, or
the identification of certain communication
obstacles -and that is pretty much about it.
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17. SUCCESFUL PRACTICE INTO ROMANIAN
ORGANIZATIONS
 If fiveteen years ago the requests for team
building programs were relatively rare.
 only 2 companies/year were asking for it, at
the present moment we have increase the
requests 15 times (over 30 firms/year), in
spite that the training and consultancy
companies number in the human resources
field has increased considerably.
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18. CONCLUSIONS -1
 The team forming program is seen:
 as a nucleus of a successful company;
 link to team activity -benefits, improvement and
their consolidation;
 Above elements are reflected in the
organizational dynamics.
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19. CONCLUSIONS -2
 Each teambuilding program is unique(!) just
like the organizations are unique in their own
way.
 The positive trend team consolidation must be
realized according to the team members’
strengths.
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20. CONCLUSIONS - 3
 Over the time Romanian managers
understood and consider the fact that the
team building is not a panacea to obtain
the success but is one of the key
elements in the way construction towards
EXCELLENCY.
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21. FINAL CONCLUSION
 Team excellency
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Changes if
necessary
Commitment
Team
dynamics
Trust

22. THE TEAM-BUILDING IMPACT ON THE
ROMANIAN ORGANIZATIONS
DYNAMICS
Thank you for your attention!
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The 21st Biennial International Congress
Tourism and Hospitality Industry
Trends in Tourism and Hospitality Management
4th of May 2012
Opatija, Croatia
Ada Mirela Tomescu
University of Oradea, Romania