Team Building And Leadership Review For Organizational Performance

Team Building and Organizational Performance

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The chapter emphasizes on the nature of the team’s success factors and the manner in which the joint venturing of the members of the team contributes to the success of the organizations. The chapter relates the understanding of the needs for the team through Hackman’s three primary definitions of success. It has helped in understanding the different organizational performance concepts relating to the different changes in the systems. The identification of the importance of the task and the manner in which they can be executed helps in maintaining the performance of the organization in the market. On the other hand, the identification of the social relations has helped in understanding the different key elements of the group maintenance and the necessity of communication in the processes that are undertaken by the business.

The attributes of communication and social interactions as per the chapter has helped in maintaining the different levels of changes in the systems of the business undertakings. The enumeration of the individualistic approach of the organizations has helped ion understanding the basic elements of the change that is planned by the business while operating in the international markets. It helps the organization sin maintaining a powerful cohesion among the members of the teams through continuous support and guidance. The chapter enumerates the ixde3a of the key undertakings of the organization that helps in maintaining the levels of the motivated workforce. The chapter enumerates the necessary ste4ps to bring in changes in the systems of the business through the identification of the decision making systems. The chapter also focuses on the positive psychology that helps in facilitating the team bonding for undertaking the required activities in the organization and thereby identifies the benefits and the problems faced through the actualization of the teamwork. 

The chapter emphasizes on the motivational factors that are undertaken by the organizations in maintaining the proper functioning of the team activities and thereby stimulate the involvement of the team members. The chapter has helped in understanding the different needs of the organization to divide the activities among the employees for maintaining the efficiency of the activities. The different aspects of motivation and development of the team cohesion through interactions helps in maintaining the smooth performance of the business as per the objectives of the organization in the market. The development of the team cohesion has helped in maintaining the proper functioning of the workforce as per the objectives of the business. The chapter enumerates the different individualistic roles and the manner in which the effectiveness of the team functions can be undertaken through the assignment of job responsibilities as per the different roles. The morale of the workforce and the manner in which it can be stimulated has helped in maintaining the different changes in the systems of the business.

Factors Contributing to Team Success

The chapter also focuses on depicting the different roles of the leaders and the facilitator in undertaking the proper functioning of the teams. The identification of the different roles that are played by the personnel in the team helps in understanding the effectiveness of the functions that are undertaken by the management. The roles that are played by the leaders in mitigating the issues that are faced by the workforce is being emphasized in this section. The different behaviors that supports the smooth functioning of the elements in the team is also being considered as a part of the chapter. 

The transactional communication process has a highly influencing power to facilitate the changing process inside an organization. This concept is relied upon two aspects, the verbal and non-verbal communication. In this regard, it can be argued that communication with the teams is highly important. In this context, the poor communication can lead towards conflict inside the business organization and on the contrary, effective communication practice will establish trust and creative practices. Therefore, it is imperative for the organization to set up an effective information process by putting emphasis on the in-depth nature of the information. 

There can be some problems regarding the information process in the form of confirmation bias and false dichotomies.  Besides this, an organizational communication can be faced issues regarding gender. In this context, the communication style has two categories based on the gender. The masculine communication style is comprised with emphasis on the status including independence, competition and reporting knowledge. On the other hand, the Feminine communication style puts emphasis on setting up connections primary. Moreover, this communication style also deals with empowerment, interest in others and participation. Trust can be considered as an effective tool in this regard. It can be argued that building trust can facilitate values, attitude and emotion. As a result of that it enhances social relationship between different employees and interpersonal communication that in return creates an effective teamwork. The psychological safety is another component that can build a good environment for working in organization. The emotional intelligence coincides with this that enables trust and cohesion among the team members.

The chapter emphasizes on the conflict management in the teams for retaining the effectiveness of the operations of the teams as per the objectives. The chapter, at the beginning stated the value of the conflicts as it helps organizations in reviewing he processes that are undertaken by the same. The chapter further evaluates the sources of the conflicts that might affect the functioning of the organization while operating as per the objectives of the team. The understanding of the sources of the conflicts will be helping the management of the teams to understand the issues and thereby undertake mitigation strategies to bring in changes in the systems. On the other hand, the identification of the causes of the conflicts has helped in maintaining the different levels of changes in the approaches of management. 

Organizational Performance and Change Management

The chapter includes the understanding of the management styles that might be undertaken by the leaders of the teams to facilitate the proper team bonding, which will be helping to ensure the efficient functioning of the teams. communication and commitments among the team members and the management of the team helps in ensuring the inter- trust factor which supports the efficient performance of the teams. The chapter also stated the two approaches that might be considered by the management for integrating the team members and thereby distributing the workload evenly among the members of the team. It has helped in identifying the different steps that might be undertaken by the management for facilitating interaction and team bonding to manage conflicts within the team. 

The chapter depicts the identification of power and social influence on the performance of the teams. The chapter enumerate4s the different influences that are identified through a study of Asch’s conformity. It has helped in the identification of the types of power that supports the hierarchy systems and thereby determines the different bases of power. The identification of the power has helped in understanding the type of influences that might be utilized by the organizational management systems for ensuring the efficient functioning of the  team as per the objectives of the business. The identification of the power dynamics has helped in maintaining the proper functioning of the organizations as per the business objectives to ensure the proper performance of the teams. The differences in the power dynamics has helped in identifying the different effects and the causes of the hierarchical system of management on the team effectiveness.

The empowerment activities that are undertaken by the management of the teams has helped in maintaining the efficiency in the functioning of the team members through motivation and encouragement to involve themselves in the different activities. The empowerment of the team members helps in ensuring the smooth performance of the team as per the objectives of the business. The chapter evaluates the manner in which the empowerment might be undertaken by the organization through the enumeration of the different approaches. On the other hand, the application of the different empowerment programs helps in asserting the active participation of the team members in the activities that are planned by the team. 

Decision making is identified as an important facet for the decision making in a group. It can be asserted that there are some advantages and disadvantages regarding the decision making. The advantages can be regarded as process gain, higher quality decision and the effective motivational process whereas the disadvantages can be identified as communication problems and loss in knowledge pool. Therefore, the value of group decision is imperative in business operation. In this regard, the group decision can be superior to individual decision making if team composition, good communication and need will be stapled with the organizational purposes.

Social Relations and Communication

There are various approaches of group decision making such as consultative, democratic and consensus. The consultative approach enhances efficiency in group decision making. However, there is certain disadvantage in relation to the consultative approach like the approach is not fully committed and it encourages competition which is detrimental for the group decision making. The democratic aspect connotes high quality and is considered to be quick. Despite of that, it can be argued that the premature decision making and resentment features curb down the effectiveness of democratic approach. In this context, consensus is referred as best utilization of team resources, better implementation but have lack of energy and skill in group decision making. Based on this understanding, it can be argued that the group decision making approaches are coincided with quality, speed and support that the organization needs to be maintained. Therefore, main purposes of the group decision making can be regarded as resolving disagreement, implementing positive emotions in discussion and reduce negative pressure like time and stress in group decision making.

The chapter aims at identifying the different designs of leadership which helps in managing the functions that are undertaken by the teams. The understanding of the leadership styles that are applicable for managing the teams of the business helps in maintaining the different levels of changes in the systems of the business. the identification of the different characteristics of the leaders has helped in maintaining the different key elements of the changes in the systems of the business. The identification of the alternative designs of leadership has helped in enumerating the different positive impacts, which enlists the enhancement in the tasks undertaken by the teams. The chapter sheds light on the approaches of leadership that helps in maintaining the criteria of the smooth performance of the teams as it depends on the decision making and mitigation strategies that are framed by the same. The chapter also enumerates the different systems of the self managing teams that focuses on the responsibility of the employees and the empowerment of the same. The application of the different concepts of the leadership on the functionality of the business is dependent on the identification of the team coaching based on motivational and communicative standards.

The problem solving measures are very important to keep the organizational occupation intact. In this discussion, it can be articulated that there are some common problem solving flaws in terms of the definition and evaluation of the problems. Therefore, it is important for the team leader to solve the problem based on three difference approaches of descriptive, functional and perspective. The process has four stages in terms of forming, norming, storming and performing. It can be stated that the team problem solving depends upon intelligence and creativity, the ability of the leader in order to manage both task and relationship. Besides this, collecting data and putting focus on the problem are imperative to solve the issue efficiently. In this discussion, it can be argued that premature solution, difficulty in determining the problems, lack of communication and uncertainty are the probable factors that left negative impact on the group decision making. Furthermore, factors like politics, competition and unequal power are detrimental for procuring an effective problem solving method.

Based on this understanding, there must be a rational problem solving model that can be utilized in order to make the problem solving framework effective. The process will be initiated through recognition and definition of the problem. Then it will carry forwarded by the process of analysis. After that a n alternative solution will be effective. . The final step can be identified as the implementation and evaluation of the outcome. In addition to this, the force field analysis is regarded as an important tool to make the problem solving technique effective.

In order to formulate effective teamwork creativity and innovative skills are considered to be the essential factors that the team has to focus on. Creativity incorporates the criteria of talent, leadership skills and the situational factors on which the teamwork is relied upon. Both the individual and group creativity are required in this context. It can be argued that individual creativity connotes the elements of motivation creativity related skills and the domain relevant techniques. In fact, measures like rewards and evaluation apprehension are considered to be important and effective in this regards. Besides this, the group creativity deals with the total innovations of the individuals. The dynamic factors and the cognitive interferences are also considered to be effective factors in this regard. 

There are some benefits in relation to the group creativity. It encompasses the aspects of developing ideas, social interaction and the support for implementation. In order to achieve success in teamwork the necessary elements can be identified as time, proper environment, constructive discussion and the psychological safety of the team members. Therefore, an effective creativity model can be identified by setting up an open climate in order to conduct a research. Then it is imperative to generate creative ideas. After that, the sorting and selecting process has to be implemented. Finally the refining process will make the creativity relevant and effective.