Fundamentals of Management: Teamwork and Motivational Theories

This report explains the role of various management theories of teamwork and motivational theories such as Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, Alderfer, McClelland, Two Factors motivational theory in order to understand the team in depth. It further explains the role of CVF in self actions and behaviours.

Fundamentals of
Management

TABLE OF CONTENT
◦ Introduction
◦ Tasks
◦ Teamwork and motivational theories
◦ CVF's Action Imperatives
◦ Conclusion
◦ References

INTRODUCTION
◦ Management refers to the activities and art of
getting things done together to achieve the
desired goals and objectives with the help of
available resources efficiently. This report
explains the role of various management
theories of teamwork and motivational theories
such as Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs,Alderfer,
McClelland, Two Factors motivational theory in
order to understand the of team in depth.

TEAMWORK AND
MOTIVATIONAL THEORIES
◦ Belbin Theory comprises the nine team roles of
the behavioural attributes founded by Dr
Meredith Belbin in reference to track the
progress of the team. The nine roles are
resource investigator, Team worker, Co-
ordinator, Plant, Monitor Evaluator, Specialist,
Shaper, Implementer and Completer Finisher. A
team should have a proper balance of the nine
above mentioned team roles This theory
explains the role and pattern of behaviour
which presents the behaviour of one person
which promotes the progress of the whole
team.

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◦ Tuckman Theory
This theory was made by a psychologist Bruce
Tuckman in five different stages of development
which are forming, storming, norming, performing
and adjourning which explains the level of team's
ability to develop the relationships among various
team members.

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◦ Motivational theories
◦ Motivation is required for the people in order
to fill them with enthusiasm and energy so that
the desired goals can be attained with better
focus and commitment. It is a driving force that
pushes the human to do actions to keep the
team and students motivated.

CVF's Action Imperatives
◦ CVF is one of the main way to understand the culture if the teamwork which stands for Competing
Values Framework which was created in 1983 by Robert Quinn and John Rohrbaugh for measuring the
individual leadership and behaviour.

Conclusion
◦ Teamwork requires the effective management to attain specific goals of the a particular project with the
available resources. A proper management helps in completion of tasks correctly in minimum time to
yield desired results of the project. This report helped in demonstration of the use of motivational
theories to keep the team motivated and perform better. Motivational theories such as Maslow Hierarchy
of Needs and Vroom's theory of expectancy helped to keep the teamwork stable and lead to achieve the
goals of the teamwork. It further explained the role of CVF in self actions and behaviours.