Organizational Resilience: Walmart's Internal Team Commitment Impact

This report explores the critical role of internal organizational team commitment in enhancing resilience within Walmart. It examines how effective group work, harmony in diversity, better communication, and specialization in teams contribute to achieving organizational goals. The report also discusses the desired group dynamics within Walmart, utilizing Tuckman's Model to illustrate team development stages, including forming, storming, norming, performing, and dissolving. Ultimately, the analysis concludes that strong team relationships, clear communication, and a shared understanding of purpose are essential for Walmart to enhance employee morale, improve productivity, and achieve better organizational outcomes amidst the challenges of group dynamics such as cultural and behavioral differences.

The role of internal organisational team
commitment on the ability of the
organisation to improve resilience

Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.............................................................................................................3
Background of the organisation.......................................................................................................4
How Walmart can increase effectiveness of group work ...............................................................4
The desired group dynamic within the Walmart that can help it achieve better organisational
outcomes..........................................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
Books and Journals:....................................................................................................................7

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Group work is one of the essential part which helps an organisation to form different
teams and initiate work among them. In this two or more than two people are group together to
achieve common goals and objective. Group work gets affected due to the presence of group
dynamics in a company. Group dynamics are the changes which includes various differences
among the people such as cultural and background differences, personal and behavioural
differences and other demographical differences etc. These dynamics are the key factors which
may lead to failure or success in achievement of overall goals of an organisation. However, to
combat failure of plans and goals the internal organisational team commitment plays an
important role in the success of an organisation. Thus, there are various ways from which one
can achieve group goals and improve resilience with team commitments.

Background of the organisation
In this report the respective organisation is Walmart which deals in retail industry. It is
one of the giant player in the supermarket sector. It has been operating stores across the world
with headquartered in US. It has multiple stores such as hypermarkets, grocery stores and
discount departmental stores etc. In this report, the role of internal organisational team
commitment on the ability of the organisation to improve resilience. Also, the impact of group
work on the organisation is considered.
How Walmart can increase effectiveness of group work
Group work is the formation of teams inside an organisation which helps in achievement
of group goals leading to overall success in an organisation. This can be seen from the
functioning of Walmart operations across the world. The company includes various teams which
helps in allocating different types of work to the specialised teams. Walmart is one of the giant
company which has large number of people. It has allocated work in different groups with
specialised team members (Wahlström and Törnberg, 2021). Walmart can increase their
effectiveness with the help of group work in following manner:
Harmony in diversity- Group work is affected due to the presence of various different
teams with different background. Group is formed with inclusion of different people from
different culture and other differences. With inclusion of various seminars and group activities
more harmony and cooperation can be build. This include various group activities other than
work such as recreational and inter group games. It can help in achieving harmony in the
diversified groups. Thus, it helps Walmart to achieve increased effectiveness in group work.
Better communication- Communication is one of the key element in the formation of
better groups. It helps in achieving group goals with the completion of work effectively and
efficiently. It helps in formation of strong team with better results due to building of cooperation
and dependency among the members. Thus, Walmart focuses on open communication among
team members.

Specialisation in teams- With grouping of teams in similar specialised skills can help
them in achieving better group work. Teams are the group of people which perform similar task
with synergy (Kovaitė, Šūmakaris and Stankevičienė, 2020). Specialisation of work leads to
better outcome with increase in productivity level. It helps in utilising of resources in the most
effective manner. For example, with specialisation of work in teams time taken to complete the
work is reduced, better usage of resources and better cost effectiveness is achieved. Thus,
Walmart can focuses more on specialisation of work among members to achieve effectiveness of
outcome in group work.
The desired group dynamic within the Walmart that can help it achieve better
organisational outcomes
Group dynamics are the different attitudes and behavioural patterns inside a group. It is
the study of people and various factors affecting its performance. It is a social process in which
people interact in groups for the fulfilment of its belongingness needs. It is formed with two or
more people to achieve common goals and objectives with certain values. The desired group
formation and development can be achieved with the help of Tuck-man's Model (Leeuw and
Sonnichsen, 2020). In this model, five stages are framed for the growth and development of
teams to achieve better outcomes. These are as following:
Forming- In this stage team is established with high level of managerial involvement to
frame basic rules. Individuals are stranger to each other and have unclear roles and
responsibilities.
Storming- In this stage members start communicating their feelings but still remain
individuals rather than part of the team. They resist control from leaders and conflicts occur due
to their hostility in groups. However, teams have developed more clarity of purpose and blurred
relationships are formed (Ballester, González- Urteaga and Martínez, 2020).
Norming- In this stage of group development members work together as team with
building better relations and acceptance of each other. They start considering the importance of
others viewpoint in the completion of process effectively and efficiently.
Performing- At this stage performance is reached at its peak level. All the members are
working with their full potential with strong reliability and flexibility. In this open and effective
communication helps in achieving high performance (Ameln and Becker-Ebel, 2020). This is
due to building of synergy effect in outcomes and effective utilisation of resources.

Dissolving- In this team gets adjourn with the completion of process. Members start
feeling bad due to ending of the team and loss of work in future. Leader make sure to start
working on new process with assurance given to the existing members.
CONCLUSION
From the above, it can be said that with the help of this model better groups can be
formed and developed. It is done with the consideration of major forces present in group
dynamics effectively. This leads to formation of desired group which helps Walmart to achieve
group goals and enhance productivity. It helps in enhancing morale of employees with
achievement of work satisfaction. Also, when members have strong relationships among each
other with clarity of purpose and expectations better organisational outcome can be achieved.
Walmart has large number of groups working across the world with cooperation. They faces
group dynamics such as varied culture, attitudes and behavioural differences among each other.
For this company engages in various group development activities and implementation of models
by the leaders and managers.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
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Kovaitė, K., Šūmakaris, P. and Stankevičienė, J., 2020. Digital communication channels in
Industry 4.0 implementation: The role of internal communication. Management:
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Leeuw, F. L. and Sonnichsen, R. C., 2020. Introduction Evaluation and Organizational Learning:
International Perspectives. In Can Governments Learn? (pp. 1-13).
von Ameln, F. and Becker-Ebel, J., 2020. Fundamentals of psychodrama. Singapore: Springer.
Ballester, L., González-Urteaga, A. and Martínez, B., 2020. The role of internal corporate
governance mechanisms on default risk: A systematic review for different institutional
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(Wahlström and Törnberg, 2021)(Kovaitė, Šūmakaris and Stankevičienė, 2020)(Leeuw and
Sonnichsen, 2020)(Ameln and Becker-Ebel, 2020)(Ballester, González- Urteaga and
Martínez, 2020)