Evaluation of Individual and Teamwork Performance in Organisations

ESSAY

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Teamwork is the activity which is performed by a group of individuals where they are
assigned with a task and they are required to accomplish the goals of that task together with
effective collaboration strategies (Soukup and et. al., 2018). A effective communication is
required to make the team work successful. The skills of team work are used at both level
academic career as well as professional career. The following essay will cover evaluation of
individual and teamwork at work and the discussion of the implications of this experience for
future teamwork. This essay will also cover reflective learning about team work and my own
strengths and weakness from this module.
MAIN BODY
Individual and teamwork performance
Today most of the individuals choose to work within a team instead of individual due to
various benefits. The first and priority benefit of team working is that the group is having
different specialisation people who can accomplish task with the help of their skills and talents
(Dyson, Howley and Shen, 2021). For example, a individual who is having high research skill is
given task to collect data and evaluate for the project and assignment. A given task is the
collection of various activities and a team work will help to accomplish each activity in
appropriate manner. On the other hand, working individually contain few of the dis benefits like
a single individual can not be good at all skills and domains. Hence, they need someone's help
for those areas where they are lacking behind. There are few of the things which should be
considered appropriately while working within a team. Firstly, the team leader must know about
the team members appropriately and assign them those tasks and activities only which are related
to their expertise and specialisation so that they will accomplish the task appropriately. The team
work is also required to effective collaboration and this can only be possible with effective
communication within the team. Hence, a open and transparent communication strategy should
be followed within a team where all group members will share their ideas and concepts about the
task openly. The availability of resources for accomplishing group task is also one of the most
important aspect of team work. The team leader must analyse that whether they have appropriate
amount of resources or not and in case they are having less resources as required then they must
order additional resources as soon as possible.
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Concepts and theories from the field of organisational philosophy
Organisational philosophy consist of analysing employees behaviour at workplace while
they are pursuing their job roles. They apply psychological principles and research methods to
enhance the work environment (Magalhães and et. al., 2021). Most of the researches within
different industries analyse that the employees get satisfied more with effective working
environment and the priority of factor goes to team work. Employees prefer to work teams and
especially with productive teams because it will help them to learn various skills and knowledge
which are effective for their professional growth. Team working within an organisation also
helps to improve the performance of those employees who are underperforming within their
organisations. There is a effective team working strategy which helps to enhance the
performance and that is the organisations make teams which are having team mates of highly
productive, moderate productive and low productive employees so that they will learn with each
other. Low productive employees will learn the ways to work hard and achieve the group goal
with various skills and talents from high and moderate productive employees and moderate and
high productive employees can learn the easiest and less time consuming way to perform various
tasks from low performing employers. There are few theories of organisational philosophy such
as, The Behaviourist Theory, according to this theory it is mentioned that all types of behaviour
are learnt through interaction with environment. The individual who interact more with their
surroundings will be able to learn more (Wang, 2018). This theory states that environment is a
stimuli and individual's behaviour is response.
Individual, social and cultural factors that affect behaviour in organisations
There are various individual factors which impacts behaviour of an person within the
organisation such as abilities, gender, perception, attitude and many others. In context of
abilities, the individual who are having high abilities are commonly have positive and self-
motivated behaviour (Bui and et. al., 2019). On the other hand, the individual having low
abilities are commonly have negative and disrespected type of behaviour for others.
There are various social factors that affect behaviour of an individual within an
organisation and these factors are level of education, urbanisation, norms, culture of society and
many others (Parker and et. al., 2019). In context of level of education, if an individual is having
high level of education then he can understand the corporate world easily and can manage his
feelings and emotions as per the conditions but in context of those individual who are having low
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