If you want a professionaly productive and satisfied team you have to clearly state what you expect from them. This sounds fairly easy doesn't it? Now when I look at many teams it is obvious that the Roles & Responsibilities are not always as clear as they ought to be. Why is that?
In any case the result is people either seem to feel that they are vaguely responsible for everything or they are responsible for nothing.That doesn't help anyone, in fact it hinders them and the whole team. Therefore it needs to be very clear what your team members/employees are responsible for and what they are NOT responsible for. Just think about any team sport, not every player is playing every position. Your job as a (Project) manager is to make sure you get the right players at the right position. Once you have that clarified, maybe with a job description, you have to make sure that they have the right priorities. To stay with the sports analogy you don't want a Basketball Shooting Guard to focus on training for a Center. The priority and focus of a Center should be to 80% to increase his Center skills.
