Saturday, December 18, 2021

The Effect of Teamwork on Organizational Performance

 

Figure 1: Team Work Stock Photos and Images (Source: (123RF.com, 2021)


Team work is important to an organization to achieve its Goals and Objectives. Organization puts individual in teams and expect them to achieve its goals and objectives. Individuals have to perform on their role functional activities while working as a team to meet the goals and objectives. Having a team in an organization is now common. Many organizations are experiencing good results of using the team work module. Team work always has a positive consequence.


Work should be evaluated in the organization with the following parameters  

1.       Schedule

A schedule is the predetermined time for the completion of a project (Larsen, et al., 2016).  


2.       Quality

The work should be completed a perfection manner where the company’s revenues, production capacity, or other expectations are met as required (Baykasoğlu, et al., 2019).

 

3.       Costs.

The costs that are likely to be incurred across the phases toward project actualization. Successful projects either depict falling below the costs estimated or showing insignificant deviations, with a high matched value of the quality expected (Steinmo & Rasmussen, 2015).

 

4.       Success.  

Is the achievement of the Organizations goals and objective.

 

The Two Parameters for teams to perform

Team trust,

This refers to cohesion among team members.

Team members, are easily influenced by what other members do or say within the scope of the project. (Breuer, et al., 2016)

Team trust is vitally important, as its presence makes the team members cooperative and renders the project’s delivery easily achievable. The absence of team trust may affect the delivery of a project adversely. Team trust is majorly derailed by factors such as individual animosity between team members and the loss of focus on the project’s outcome. (Hudson, 2021)

 

Organizational goals and culture

The organization culture play’s a major role to achieve the goals of the organization. The culture work environment should make the employees happy.  

Further, the Organizations should render appropriate top management support to the project teams, which significantly makes projects successful (Lee, 2018).

 

Literature review

The definition of a team work is “A group of workers having integrated skills research together to achieve a common goal in a regularity framer work” (Abuzid & Abbas, 2017).

A study was carried out on 45 business units to measure performance of the teams in the light of information sharing and job diversity and found that the job diversity negatively affected performance contrary to information sharing which affected positively (Bunderson & Sutcliffe, 2003).

Investigation done to see the relationship between leadership dimensions such as trust and contribution with the performance of the team members and identified a positive significance of the leadership dimension with the performance of the team (Cogliser, et al., 2012).

When employed in projects, teamwork boosts productivity among the employees (Hudson, 2021).

Effective teamwork is essential in increasing productivity among employees (Blanchard, 2018).

Correction of mistakes logically, and presenting all team members to be partners in solving problems is a crucial element of a team (Lee, 2018)

 

 

Conclusion 

When there is team work in the organization the performance of the organization increases as all employees works as one unit to achieve the organizations goals and objective no matter what problems or obstacles they have to face. If there is a mistake done by a member, the team will correct it immediately and move forward to achieve the ultimate goals and objective of the organization.

 

References 

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Abuzid, H. F. & Abbas, M., 2017. impact of teamwork effectiveness on organizational performance vis-a-vis role of organizational support and team leader's readiness. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, July.

Baykasoğlu, A. et al., 2019. Revenue management for make-to-order manufacturing systems with a real-life application. The Engineering Economist, 1 March.

Blanchard, K., 2018. Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations, Third Edition. s.l.:FT Press.

Breuer, C., Hüffmeier, J. & Hertel, G., 2016. Does trust matter more in virtual teams? A meta-analysis of trust and team effectiveness considering virtuality and documentation as moderators. 26 May.

Bunderson, J. S. & Sutcliffe, K. M., 2003. Management team learning orientation and business unit performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 1 June.

Cogliser, C. C., Gardner , W. L., Gavin, M. B. & Broberg, J. C., 2012. Big Five Personality Factors and Leader Emergence in Virtual Teams: Relationships With Team Trustworthiness, Member Performance Contributions, and Team Performance. Sage Journals, 29 October.

Hudson, T., 2021. Impact of Teamwork on Organizational Performance. [Online] 
Available at: http://goodprojectmanagement.com/impacts-of-teamwork-on-organizational-performance
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Larsen, J., Shen, G., Lindhard, S. & Brunoe, T., 2016. Factors Affecting Schedule Delay, Cost Overrun, and Quality Level in Public Construction Projects. Journal of Management in Engineering, `.
Lee, A., 2018. The Case for Mindful Leadership. People + Strategy Journal.

Steinmo, M. & Rasmussen, E., 2015. How firms collaborate with public research organizations: The evolution of proximity dimensions in successful innovation projects. Journal of Business Research, September.

1 comment:

  1. Teamwork is an important topic that is being discussed a lot today and is therefore broad so many ways to improve it have been put forward by the researchers as it helps the employees to share ideas and responsibilities, which helps to reduce stress for everyone and allows them to be careful and complete when completing tasks. This will enable sales targets to be achieved quickly.

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