Effectiveness of Teamwork in Management

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Effectiveness of Teamwork in Management
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Introduction:
In 2018, 12 boys, who were also the players of a Thai soccer team got trapped in a flooded
caves in Thailand, with their coach for almost nine days. After nine days they got rescued by the
Thai Government and the officials. The rescue mission planned by the Thai government, but was
executed by the Thai government along with various organizations and various teams from the
world joined together in this mission (BBC News 2019). In the study below, the importance and
effectiveness of teamwork has been discussed and analyzed, based on the above case. By analyzing
the case, the role of team work and its effectiveness in the mission are defined to identify the
importance of teamwork in effective e management and achieving an organizational objective
(Stanton and Baber 2017).
Discussions:
Answer to Question ‘a’ of Part 1:
In such scenario, as discussed above, where the young players and their coach were trapped
for nine days, teamwork plays a very significant role in surviving and also in rescuing. Teamwork
can only be happen when all the person in the team are together and it can only be done by a team
leader (Chin 2015). In the certain scenario, the rescue is only possible because everyone worked as
a team, even the young players have also shown teamwork, which was led by their coach. There are
some key benefits of teamwork in such scenario and they are (Salmon, Stanton and Jenkins 2017) -
(i) teamwork motivates unity among the people, which means that, without being selfish, if the
people work as a team they can help each other and provide necessary help to others and take help
from others when needed, (ii) in such complicated and crucial situation, a wrong decision can
increase problems, thus teamwork offers different perspectives of different individuals in the team
and then helps to pick the best and unanimous decision out of all, (iii) in such scenario, physical
energy is n needed to be preserved for survival, and team’s effort for rescue can reduce individual
efforts and thus can save energy and can increase productivity, (iv) teamwork also provide great

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opportunities of learning and creativity, because in this kind of situation, when people works
together, they share their ideas, personality, and knowledge which is sub-consciously get
transmitted to the other members of the team, thus they learn new things and can show new
creativity to get rid of that situation.
Answer to Question ‘b’ of Part 2:
The rescue mission was performed and executed successfully by the team effort of the local
government and the international teams and groups. According to professor Michael Useem and
Andrew Eavis, this case is the great example of leadership, teamwork and large-hearted. This
situation is one of the rare situations, where the whole world joins together and collectively
participates for a common cause. The main reason behind the effective international teamwork is
the leadership (Stanton and Baber 2017). The other main reason of the effect is Collaborative
problem solving by the process includes steps- establishing shared understanding and maintaining,
taking appropriate action, establishing team organisation (Graesser, Kuo and Liao 2017). The local
government have taken the leadership and allowed the international groups and forces to involve in
the rescue mission and take their help and provided them creative freedom to think and initiate their
plans to the government. The government had made the final plan, after considering all the
suggestions from different groups, and executed accordingly (Salmon, Stanton and Jenkins 2017).
The effort for rescue mission was carefully coordinated and the team involved in the rescue
operations included multiple groups, which had lots of world’s best divers and best cave experts,
around 10,000 volunteers, farmers that helped by sacrificing g their crops (Anestesiologica 2018).
The Thai government also arranged medical, administrative and logistical support provided along
with the funding of the rescue. The well-known entrepreneur Elon musk, have also send his support
to the mission through sending a mini submarine to the Thai government for rescue. The Thai
government have received the submarine and used accordingly in the rescue operation
(Punnahitanond 2018). The success of the International teamwork is happened, because the Thai