Annotated Bibliography: Team building impacts on organizational Performance

This annotated bibliography provides a collection of 10 articles that explore the impact of team building on organizational performance. The articles cover various aspects such as group diversity, leadership, trust, and communication. The findings highlight the importance of effective team building in enhancing organizational performance.

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Introduction
In the current competitive business world, organizations have identified the importance of
team building and performance of the organization in the market. The following is an annotated
bibliography of 10articles with a focus on various issues of team building and its contributions to
the organizational performance.
Article 1: The effects of group separation and variety on group performance and
satisfaction
The article aimed at investigating the performance of the diverse group as compared to a
homogeneous group. The researcher denotes that in the current 21st century, diversity has
become a significant aspect of every organization. The researcher collects data from 72 groups
with four members each (288 participants) through conceptual mapping technique while
Questionnaire was used to investigate team satisfaction. The analyzed data indicate that there
was no significant relationship between group diversity and performance or satisfaction. The
authors further conclude that group separation hurts group satisfaction thus affect performance.
Unlike other studies that indicated that diversity is significant to organizational performance, the
author had a different stand. The article is significant to the topic as it provides a gap in the
literature review, thus creating the desire to investigate more on the role of team building and
diversity in organizations performance.
Article 2: Team Effectiveness and Team Development in CSCL.
The article aimed at discussing significant element for effective team building and
development with a focus on computer-supported cooperative work. The author used work-team
effectiveness models to identify various factors. The article identifies different team development

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models such as a cyclical model that denotes that group development follows systematic process
and steps that are constantly revisited during the development. Inconsequential models that
emphasize that group formation and development are dependent on environmental facts such as
constraints and task characterizes. Team evolution and Maturation model that focuses on
integrating existing theories such as Tuchman’s stage models and Gersick punctuated Model to
develop general team-development model. The article further identifies factors responsible for
team effectiveness such as mutual trust, leadership, and communication. This article is
significant to the topic since it provides relevant information required in understanding the topic.
It further provides a foundation for good literature writing.
Article 3: Authentic Leadership, Collective Efficacy, and Group Performance
The article explored the importance of trustworthy leadership on group functioning. Just
like researchers, the author feels that the team is effective only with effective leadership. The
author defines trustworthy leadership as a procedure that attracts both progressive and
psychological competence in a highly established organizational context. The authors carried an
empirical study of various 301 groups from Chinese companies. From the study, the outcomes
signified that that authentic leadership in each group had a positive impact on group performance
as well as the group efficacy. Comparing the results from this article and article by Min (2017),
it is imperative that team leadership is significant to the performance of the team members, an
aspect associated with motivation. Thus the article is significant to the study as it identifies
leadership as a factor for an effective team building.
Article 4: Simulation Using Fighter Ants Algorithm with an Application on Efficient Team
Building

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The article by Kreinovich, Sudtasan & Suriya, denote the significance of team building in
organization performance and cost originating in different aspects such as recruitment, training
rewarding, and monitoring. The paper investigates the importance of team building by
comparing two teams of similar skills are different diversity through the application of Fighter
Ants Algorithms. Moreover, the paper aimed at identifying ways of improving performance of a
team. The study used five different simulations of the fighter ant’s algorithms with a focus on
consequences of skills diversifications, skill’s improvement level by hiring of experts in the
losing team and strategies comparison. The study significant to the topic since it proves that an
effective team must be diverse to enhance creativity; moreover, a weak team is capable of
gaining efficiency through adding, more expert.
Article 5: Becoming a group: Value convergence and emergent workgroup identities
The article aimed at exploring the procedure of unit identity creation through social
interconnection in various relay life workgroups. The article is based on the significance of the
value of convergence as a point of group formation. To extensively explore this, the researcher
employed cross-lagged multilevel design with for repeated measures on 295 psychology
students. The data collection tool focuses on group identity formation, the value of convergence,
and group project performance. The analyzed results showed that workgroup contract with
common identity have a direct impact on the achievement of the entire group. The article is
essential to the topic under the study since it provides a clear understanding of the group
formation based on social interaction, a different method if crediting and developing the group.
Article 6: Students’ Group Work Contribution: Influence of Work Preference, Gender,
and Individual Assessment

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The researcher aimed at investigating factor related to individuals contributes to group
work with 649 participants who were graduates. The study is based on the failure of numerous
school group works in comparison to individual performance. The researcher used a survey
method with a focus on the academic reports, group science, and group performance. The data
was analyzed using ANOVA to determine the related factors of group work contributions and
participate in the performance. From the analysis, the researcher concluded that women had
greater group involvement than men thus identified personally as one factor.
The study is instrumental to the topic has it highlights various factors that contribute to
effective group /team building as well as performance. Thus every team builder has to know the
factors before commencing any team building process.
Article 7: Development and Evaluation of a Team Building Intervention with a U.S.
Collegiate Rugby Team: A Mixed Methods Approach
The article aimed at investigating how to create rugby team cohesion to improve the
performance through the use of the mixed method. In this article, cohesion refers to the tendency
of a group working together in pursuit of a common goal. Thus team building is one method of
putting group dynamics into practice. This study used both qualitative and quantitative methods
upon 19 male’s rugby players between the ages of 18-23. The researcher used observation as a
data collection instrument during the team games therefore followed by interview. The data was
screened using SPSS, and the researcher found out that there is a positive impact on the long-
term cohesion of a team on the performance. This article is instrumental to the topic since it
proves that team building is not just enough without the cohesion of the members.
Article 8: Using Teams to Improve Outcomes and Performance

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The article explores the importance of the team in the current competitive business
environment. The article covers different aspects of the team and organizational performance.
The author defines a team as two or more people working together interdependently to achieve a
particular goal. The author further explains an effective way of building a team to integrate with
the organizational vision and missions. The article future covers the role of team member as well
as team leaders, the effect of team training and different strategies that are essential in enhancing
the performance of the team members. The article is essential to the topic since it provided a
wide understanding of the topic in various scopes thus will help the researcher in creating a good
literature review for the proposal and act as a future reference.
Article 9: Group Laziness: The Effect Of Social Loafing on Group Performance
The study aimed at investigating the cause of the group performance difference as
compared to individual performance. The study identifies loafing as the decrease of commitment
when an individual is subject to group work as compared when they are alone. The study used
Social Loafing Tendency Questionnaire as data collection tool on 212 participants that
comprised 109 men and 103 women. The collected data was through the use of ANOVA and
other correlation matric tools to determine the reasons. The result indicated that loafing has an
impact on the group performance; an individual with high social loafing score have very little
contribution to the group work, thus affect the performance negatively. This article is significant
to the topic since it highlights factors influencing team building and its efficiency.
Article 10: Team Satisfaction and Student Group Performance
In this article, the authors were concerned with the association between team gratification
and the student’s performance in various group projects from both the United States and Qatar

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universities. The data was collected through a survey of 282 participants with a focus on twelve
undergraduate courses and group projects. The data were analyzed through the descriptive
analysis method and results indicated that there is a positive association between team
gratification and functionality. The article is significant to the topic since it denotes that team
building is not efficient for performance just like denoted by Bucur and Constantin, (2014) that
also identified that group performance is dependent on the satisfaction.
Conclusion
The identified articles are essential to the topic under the study since all provide a clear
understanding of the topic, factors contributing to the teambuilding such as leadership. Using
these articles, the researcher can develop an extensive literature review for the proposed topic.

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