Management Principles - Assignment
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Management Principles - Assignment
Added on 2021-06-14
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1MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLESIntroductionThis essay provides an overview on how diversity acts as a barrier to the effectiveteamwork of an organization. Teamwork refers to collaborative effort of the team for achieving acommon target of the organization in most effective as well as efficient way (Barak 2016). Thereare certain requirements for building an effective teamwork, which includes- adequate team size,skilled team members, proper guidance from the supervisor and support from the enterprise.Effective teamwork mainly creates its specific characteristics which make it possible for seeingcohesion in the group. Effective teamwork helps the organization to attain productive outcome inthe business operations (Bond and Haynes 2014). Most effective teamwork generally happenswhen the individual contributors makes huge effort in achieving the goal of the company. One ofthe most vital building blacks for developing an effective team is the communication. Therefore,it is generally imperative for developing necessary skills in order to communicate properly witheach team members. Effective teamwork at workplace facilitates the organization to enhanceefficiency, expedite idea generation, establish open culture and achieve success for theorganization. The leaders have to face several barriers while building effective teamwork. One ofthe barriers that is discussed in this essay is diversity. DiscussionWorkplace diversity relates to variety of divergence among the employees in anenterprise. Diversity within the workplace mainly encompasses gender, age, religion, ethnicgroups, citizenship status , mental as well as physical conditions, citizenship status and otherdiscrete differences among the individuals. Managing diversity within the workplace createschallenges for the human resource professionals. Although diversity is important for the
2MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLESorganization, it poses numerous challenges for the organization. One of such challenges thatoccurs while building an effective teamwork within the workplace is diversity. The members ofteam might have diverse beliefs, perspectives, communication styles, values, learning styles,levels of education, talents and behavioral abilities even though they unites in the cooperativeeffort. In addition to this, since the members of the team do not come from similar background orreligion or do not share political ideas, it creates diversity among the individuals (Bond andHaynes 2014). These variables affect the team work in both positive as well as negative ways,thereby making few teams highly vulnerable and other teams resilient by uniting group efforts orcreating conflicts among the team members. It has been opined by Hogan (2012) that, diversityconsciousness increases over time, thereby team leaders must have the ability to deal withvariations and consequently change their leadership style or theories of creating effectiveteamwork. Furthermore, for working effectively as a part of diverse team, every member in thegroup must start the procedure by looking upon their personal efforts in order to determinewhether they hinder or facilitate the group. Apart from this, it also helps to determine whetherthey cause conflicts with climate of commitment, flexibility, trust and cooperation. ‘It has been found out by some researchers that diversity has huge affect on theperformance of teamwork and thus it is required for the teams to become multicultural. Diversitywithin the workplace might create a barrier to the team cohesiveness as well as teamwork if themembers of a team are uncomfortable to works with others, which have varying political,economic and social viewpoints. It has been opined by Nederveen Pieterse, Van Knippenbergand Van Dierendonck, (2013) that, the team members feel comfortable to communicate as wellas relate with others, which share similar views and backgrounds. According to (), diversitymight potentially create tension within the teamwork, which in turn leads to gossip and distrust.
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