Management People and Teams

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MANAGEMENT PEOPLE AND
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Executive Summary
The aim of the present report is to analyse the ComSyst Technology Company, identify the
existing challenges and provide effective recommendations to address the challenges.
ComSyst Technology is a multi-national communications software and system developer
company which mainly serves the defence service industry. Being a consultancy firm it is the
responsibility for the present group members for providing effective advice in order to cope
with present challenges of developing, attracting and retaining the workforce of the company.
The report will assess underlying key principle and theories to elaborate how its application is
going to enhance the teamwork, team development and team management. Based upon this
information, a detailed report with recommendations are going to be presented with a two
year objective of ensuring CST to build a high performance work culture, build employee
capability and also ensure CST is well positioned for the future. Few recommendations are
suggested like implementing an effective performance management system to create a
sustainable growth across all the countries and create processes that encourage merit based
system and also develop transparent reward system. Further, retaining employees would
require the company to boost the training and personal development program to maximize
their skills potential.

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Background................................................................................................................................3
Main Discussion.........................................................................................................................4
Recommendations......................................................................................................................9
Conclusion...............................................................................................................................10
Appendices...............................................................................................................................11
References................................................................................................................................17

Introduction
The present report is based on a case study of ComSyst Technology (CST), where the
company is looking for a consultancy to address its challenges. Being a consultancy firm it is
the responsibility for the present group members for providing effective advice in order to
cope with present challenges. This report is aimed at analysing the ComSyst Technology
Company, identify the existing challenges and provide effective recommendations to improve
on developing, attracting and retaining the workforce of the company. The report will also
assess underlying key principle and theories to elaborate how its application is going to
enhance the teamwork, team development and team management.
Background
ComSyst Technology is a multi-national communications software and system
developer company which mainly serves the defence service industry. CST is based in New
Zealand, Australia, United States, India, Philippines and South Korea. Recently CST lost
three major tenders due to which their market share dropped significantly. This result is been
attributed to some serious issues like low employee engagement, poor employee
performance, resignations of some key specialists and a decline in staff retention. CST’s
technical skills and capabilities have been highlighted as major gap by the technological
advancements. Based upon this information, a detailed report with recommendations are
going to be presented with a two year objective of ensuring CST to build a high performance
work culture, build employee capability and also ensure CST is well positioned for the future.
CST’s main challenge stems from its inability to attract and retain a skilled workforce.
Besides, the company’s employees are less motivated owing to the lack of challenging work
and autonomy over their work. In this backdrop, focusing on job enrichment, recognizing and
rewarding well-performing staff members, and investing in the firm’s human resource
through training will make CST be in an appropriate position to attract and retain the best
talents.
In particular, CST has to conduct job enrichment to address the high turnover that the
organization is facing. To this end, the company ought to allocate new functions or roles
which will challenge employees to use their current skills and proficiencies in new
approaches or to develop new ones to handle the set tasks (Reed & Bogardus, 2015). It is
worth noting that the concept of job enrichment centres on the precepts of the two-factor
theory of motivation (Griffin, Philips, & Gully, 2016). This theory holds that a company’s