Choose an Olympic Team to thoroughly analyze

FEMALE TEAM

Introduction

PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic is soon approaching and all the teams are eagerly waiting and preparing. Speed skating, began participating in the Olympic games on 1924. Netherlands currently has a male and female team for speed skating. We are going to analyze and focus on the female team only. The reason why we chose the female team over the male team is mainly because all the members in our group are women therefore we have a higher interest in how females are doing in the sports world.

When speed skating began, only male participants were allowed to compete. Eight years later, in 1932, female competition was finally incorporated. For the 2018 Olympics, 80 women are participating for speed skating.

The top two members Jorien ter Mors and Ireen Wuesti

Marrit LEENSTRA

Jillert Anema is the coach for the female speed skating team.

Professionally written component of the project to be based off the Team Success/Failure Model.  Paper should include the following elements:

1.Introduction.

2.Team goal or task – Level of difficulty.

3.Individual characteristics.  Who – highlight members (roughly 4-5 members if you choose a large team).  Don’t forget the coaches.

4.Team characteristics.

- Team size

-Composition

-Characteristics

-Time constraints (when do they find out whose on the team)

5. Organizational influences

-How are they rewarded (monetary? Bonuses?)

- communication systems

- organizational structure (first Olympic committee, speed skating org ., team )

-org. culture (work ethic? Strong norms and roles

-Resources (money, how wealthy is the team, sponsors)

- physical space (practice environment)

-Trust

6.External Influences.

7.Processes.

8.Predicted outcome including win/loss forecasts based on your analysis.

9.Conclusion

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