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Team Structural and Functioning Problems and Overcoming Them

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company that has been in continuous operation since its founding in 1802. It has a history of being able to adapt for the times, but its ability to implement  work teams in accordance to the principles of Total Quality Management has been hampered by union resistance. Company management needs to keep DuPont as efficient as possible, and employees  see value in being able to take an active role in making their jobs both easier and more productive, but the union maintains that the company is seeking to gain  additional work from employees with no increase in pay. Involving union representatives in team discussions could alleviate union resistance while giving greater freedom to Duponts management. Background  Eleuth?re Ir?n?e du Pont de Nemours was a French immigrant to America and a student of Antoine Lavoisier, who generally is accepted as the father  of modern chemistry. Begun as a manufacturing concern producing gunpowder, the company made its first shipments in 1804; the first exports were made to Spain in 1805. President  Thomas Jefferson was so impressed with the quality and reliability of du Ponts blasting powder that was being used to clear land at Monticello that he became an official company  spokesman in 1811 (Heritage). Today, DuPont says that the companys founding in science likely is a primary reason that it has maintained an  attitude of "discovery" throughout its years of operation. Though "change" was a catchword of the 1990s and a reality of the new century, it has been traditional at DuPont,  nearly from the beginning. The company says "That DuPont is still thriving after two centuries is evidence of its ability to successfully readjust and reinvent its basic principles of