Manufacturing companies are searching for new techniques day by day to launch qualified products with a competitive price to the market. Companies believe in the importance of teams which have members coming from different disciplines who use their knowledge, experiences, and creativity for achieving the goals of their teams. The purpose of this study is to explore the effectiveness of teamwork for successful product development process by focusing on the relationship between the team members &ndash / especially engineers&rsquo / and industrial designers&rsquo / relation. After a broad literature survey, a descriptive-survey study that aims demonstrating the relationship between engineers and industrial designers in manufacturing companies in Turkey is held in order to investigate the effectiveness of teamwork in product development process. A twelve item questionnaire which has four open-ended questions and eight Likert-scaled statements has been prepared. As the result of this study, a positive relationship is found between the performance of product development team and the effects of cooperation, social and professional communication, having clear and common goals, sharing knowledge and experiences, leadership, coordination and cooperative problem solving and decision making processes to the relationship between engineers and industrial designers.

Bakalauro baigiamajame darbe nagrinėjamas Komandinio darbo efektyvinimas: Šiaulių regiono pataisos inspekcijos atvejis. Darbe atlikta mokslinės literatūros analizė. Pirmame darbo skyriuje atlikta komandinio darbo sampratos, komandinio darbo efektyvinimo viešajame sektoriuje, viešojo ir privataus sektoriaus bendradarbiavimo, Naujojo viešojo valdymo ir Gero valdymo principų analizė. Darbe panaudotas kiekybinis tyrimas, buvo parengtos anoniminės anketos ir kokybinis tyrimas, buvo parengtas pusiau struktūruotas interviu. Tyrimu buvo nustatyta, kad komandos nariai bendradarbiauja vieni su kitais, dalinasi idėjomis, tačiau iškilus problemoms komandos nariai nesugeba vieningai jų išspręsti, todėl galima daryti prielaidą, kad komandos narių bendravimas daro įtaką problemų sprendimo efektyvumui ir santykiams komandoje. Daugiau nei trečdalis tyrime dalyvavusių respondentų teigė, kad komanda yra nelanksti ir komandos nariai dažnai konfliktuoja, todėl galima daryti prielaidą, kad stereotipiškas ir nelankstus komandos požiūris į aplinkybes skatina konfliktinių situacijų atsiradimą, kurias komandos nariams sunkiai pavyksta išspręsti, todėl prastėja darbo kokybė ir veiklos rezultatai. Vadovas teigė, kad nelankstumą lemią pačių žmonių nesugebėjimas lanksčiai mąstyti bei kritiškai vertinti savo sugebėjimus bei nuostatas, keliamo tikslo turinio paviršutiniškas supratimas. Darbo pabaigoje buvo pateiktos išvados ir praktinės rekomendacijos. / Bachelor's work deals with the teamwork promotion possibilities in Šiauliai region correction inspection. The aim of this research is to find out the factors which influence the teamwork efficiency rates. From the theoretical point of view, the paper surveys teamwork promotion in the public sector, application of teamwork, and the application of the new public administration and good governance principles in the public sector. In the paper was used a quantitative research, anonymous questionnaires and a qualitative research were prepared together with a semi-structured interview. The research has shown that the members of a team collaborate with each other, share their ideas, but if problems arise, they are not able to solve them unanimously; thus it can be assumed that communication between team members influences the efficiency of problem solving and the relations in a team. More than one third respondents claimed that the team is inflexible and the team members conflict frequently, and so it can be assumed that a stereotypical and inflexible team attitude towards circumstances prompts feuding situations, which team members find difficult to deal with and, consequently, the quality and the performance of work declines. The team leader admitted that inflexibility is also caused by people’s inability to think flexibly and critically evaluate their own capabilities and attitudes, and the superficial understanding of the objective content. At the end of the paper, there were... [to full text]