Conflicts in Team Work Essay
Added on 2020-05-16
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Leadership ManagementProfessional Development
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Running head: TEAMWORK FAILURETEAMWORK FAILUREName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:
1TEAMWORK FAILURECase study:Title: Team conflict increases, followers of Funkyfeed decreases:Funkyfeed used to be one of the most renowned Internet media companies, which isbased in Australia. It was mainly specialized as a social news and entertainment company thathad its focus on the digital media. Over the years, it had received a renowned spot in the differentsocial media platforms like Face book, Instagram, Twitter and similar others. They areresponsible for creating contents that both youngsters and elders like and enjoy. They had manyfollowers and even subscriptions were done on their pages as well. Mr.Neil O’Brian was thefounder of the company and under his leadership, the company reached zenith of success.Effective team working was the main strategy of Neil and hence the output was noticeable. Thecompany received heavy revenue. It was enjoying its phase of success. In the last decade,Michelle Brown overtook the company where she hoped to make it a more successful brand inthe department of viral content. Unlike Neil, it was not possible for Michelle to maintain thesuccess that was achieved. With the gradual passing of the days, sponsorship, revenue and signsof profit began to deplete immensely resulting in affecting the brand value of Funkyfeed as awhole.After conducting the interview of the different members of the team, it was understoodthat the higher officials maintained no effective teamwork. The managers were ineffective inmaintaining their respective teams and even no proper training was conducted. The researchteam was given the duty to research on various interesting topics and accumulates data about thetopics which would make the readers interested. It was seen that no effective bonding was
2TEAMWORK FAILUREpresent among the team members. One of the employee of the team was also seen to be statingthat she was not aware of the employee who is sitting just next to him. She told“I have no idea about his work. I have never talked to him. We are not allowed to talk and we have developed our working style in this way. Often, I face a large number of issues but there is hardly anyone with whom I can share my feelings and emotions”.None of the members of the research team was allowed to talk and hence their queries alwaysremain unresolved. This affected their productivity. Moreover, their research work not only gotdelayed but was also conducted in improper ways many a time. No proper bonding was noticed.Many of the team members had same concern. As they were not able to bond with each other,the work was gradually becoming difficult for them“We get easily stressed in office. The entire work becomes a bore. We feel emotionally drained. We do not feel like working. Even if I face difficult situations, I have no oneto approach to. I have thought of leaving the job many a times, as it does not give me any job satisfaction. There is no one to acknowledge your work or help you with your work.You are alone here”.Besides the research team, there was the team of the content writers whose main duty was towrite the content on the topics provided by the research teams. Severe power struggles wasobserved among the various team members. The senior members used to look down upon on thejunior members and acted very rudely if they used to make any mistakes. Samantha, a juniormember of the team had stated
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