Organisational Behaviour: Effective Teams and Virtual Teams

This report explores the effectiveness of teams in organisational behaviour, including the differences between effective and ineffective teams. It also reflects on the effectiveness of virtual teams and analyzes the Tuckman team development model and Beblin team role model for dynamic cooperation. The case study focuses on Hilton hotel and its team development strategies.

Organisational
behaviour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
LO3 .................................................................................................................................................3
Effective team as opposed to an ineffective team.......................................................................3
Reflect on effectiveness of virtual teams ...................................................................................4
Analyse Tuckman team development model and Beblin team role model for dynamic
cooperation..................................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Organisational behaviour refers to a study of a behaviour of both individual or the group
of people with in an business enterprise. It also creates the effect on the job structure,
communication, leadership and motivation. This activity is based on the Hilton hotel that is an
largest brand of American hospitality company that deals all over the world. This report assigns
the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of the team and also shows the reflection of virtual team on
the success and accomplishing the targets within this modern world. At last it shows the team
development model that involves Tuckman model of team development and Beblin nine
framework model so that work can be assigned properly and task can be achieved for sustaining
in the marketplace for a longer period of time(Mishra, 2020).
LO3
Effective team as opposed to an ineffective team
Effective team: These are undertaken as the base or foundation of successful company. In
terms of this, without teams the prominent work leads to face more struggle as effective teams
are helpful in order to improve quality and also helps in offering effective completion of projects
and enhance the productivity and effectiveness. Along with this, these teams tends to develop an
effective team in which every member bring their own talent and skills for the effective
contribution of success(Taylor, 2018).
Ineffective team: These teams are well known for its conflict ridden, unfocused, team
members does not have trust among them and always face negative competition. In terms of this,
these circumstances apparently depicts the high turnover, leads to develop frustration level,
absenteeism, ineffective communication and so on. In this, team member tends to avoid
prominent discussion regarding their own maintenance.
Basis Effective team Ineffective team
Goals The significant objective of
this team is to accept and
understand their team
members.
For these team members it is
difficult to understand their
team members and objectives
as in this various conflicts are
arises.

Contribution It describe the effective
contribution in which it is
important for every individual
to participate and remain
attentive while performing
task.
In this, only few people carry
forward the discussion as
every team members is not
allowed.
Listening Team members of effective
teams tends to listen each other
in order to get effective idea.
These people does not listen to
each other as their ideas are
ignored by the top level
authority.
Conflict resolution It depicts the disagreement as
the group is more comfortable
in order to neglect conflict and
confusion from the
group(Taylor, 2018).
In these groups disagreement
is the base as every team
member tends to disagree with
their suggestions that leads to
generate conflict among them.
Decision making All the decisions are formed
by agreement of employees
which is quite clear for every
team member regarding the
expectations.
In terms of this, effective
actions are taken in order to
deal with complicate issues
and also effectively examined
to resolve it.
Leadership The leader of this group does
not dominate their team
members and leave them free
to perform their job role.
In this leaders always sit on
the top of table and tends to
dominate their team member
in order to pursue their task.
Reflect on effectiveness of virtual teams
Virtual teams leads to use social media and email in order to communicate with each
other as it is hard for any team for some virtual extent. For this, teams are quite different in terms
of their development and prominently face effective management techniques that does not get
work. These teams are effective as their leaders need effective skills that are not found at the

traditional method. Along with this, these teams are effective for Hilton hotel by calling meeting
for every quarter in order to take feedback from the team mates and also leads to understand their
body language and maintain eye contact in order to observe the personality of team members.
They also leads to develop project management system which is more reliable and also suits to
the requirements of business and also make task more easier in order to perform it in collective
manner(Stowell, 2015).
Analyse Tuckman team development model and Beblin team role model for dynamic
cooperation
Tuckman team development model
This approach is developed by the Bruce Tuckman since 1965. This model helps in
developing the team by maturity, ability, changing leadership style, maintaining a high
relationship etc. In case of Hilton, manager can apply this approach by dividing into five
frameworks such as forming, storming, performing, adjourning and norming and it can be
explained below(Kitchin, 2017).
 Forming- This step shows the initial stage in developing the team where manger can
introduced every employees to make a team so that they give their best. In case of Hilton,
manager can organise a orientation program where employees are getting families with
one another and understand the skills and capabilities, interest and behaviour so that
conflicts would be reduced in developing the team.
 Storming- After induction program where every person examine the behaviour of
another person next is storming step where manager of Hilton can give the right to
employees to participate in giving suggestions and ideas so that they can select the best
out of many and due to this conflicts may be arise between the team members in
developing the further.
 Norming- In this step manager of Hilton, can focus on developing the team by removing
the conflicts at this they can appreciate the strength of employees and focusing on
providing training for their weaknesses so that they work effectively and give their best.
Due to this manager can allocate the task according to their abilities and capabilities of
completing it(Clay-Williams and Braithwaite, 2015).
 Performing- It defines that stage where manager of the Hilton can encourage their
employees by providing them rewards as a motivation so that they perform their task in

an effective team that shows the successful development in the team. For this company
can create healthy environment where they can share their ideas and problems without
any hesitation.
 Adjourning- It is the last step of the team development theory where team is dissolved
and members are searching for distinct goal. AS manager of Hilton, organize the party for
the success and getting the follow up of the team members so that in future problems can
be arised in developing the team.
Beblin Nine team roles
It is an effective model that reflects the nine roles of teams that is diversified into the
various groups that is action oriented, thought oriented and the people oriented. Manager of
Hilton can adopts this theory for defining the roles of a team that can be shown below(Kim, Kim
and Reid, 2017).
 Shaper- In this manager of Hilton can mainly focus on adopting those candidates that
have the ability to maximise and explore the organisation profits in the future terms. IN
this manager can encourage, guides and motivates the employees so that they work
effectively and efficiently for growth and enhancing the market share of Hilton.
 Implementer- This step reflects that manager of Hilton can examine all the tactics and
strategies so that they can implement that task in a systematic form that helps in gaining
high profits and revenues(Wong, Mahmud and Omar, 2015).
 Complete finisher- In this manager of the Hilton can identify the plans and actions that
is implemented a successful course of outcome by solving all the blockages and
consequences that was occur in between the projects completion.
 Coordinators- This step showcase that manager of Hilton can encourage their workforce
who are worked in a group with the proper coordination so that task would be attained
and success can be face by the company in their future terms(Chang and et. al., 2016).
 Team members- It refers to that role in which manager of the Hilton can made a team by
a group of members who work effective with their mutual interest so that profits can be
earn with collectivism and communism.
 Resource investigator- In this manager of the Hilton, can assure that the workers that are
working in the organisation have appropriate skills and experience of their assigned

work. In this they have a proper knowledge regarding to solving the problems so that risk
can be minimised in the coming future and profits can be maximised.
 Plant- In Hilton, planter is the one who always come up with the new and creative ideas
and thoughts for run a business and get the successful returns so that organisation would
sustain in the competitive market for a longer period of time.
 Monitor evaluator- IN this manager of the Hilton is a best evaluator who can evaluate
the positive and negative aspects that are related to the operations of the business
enterprise. Evaluation is an essential part for achieving the targets and getting more and
more profits for their longer survival and build a high customer base in the business
market.
 Specialist- In this manager of Hilton, mainly focus on the hiring the skilled applicant for
their business that can effectively deal with the complicated situation on the regular basis
so that they can get the profitable results(Bester, Stander and Van Zyl, 2015).
CONCLUSION
From the above reflection it is to be summarized that organisation behaviour is an
essential term for done the work very systematically by analysing the individual working
behaviour in the working environment. This project inculcates the effective and ineffective team
variants that showcase the success and failure features of the company by comparison. In today's
world virtual teams is most effective type of team that can communicate with the use of digital
tools and done the task systematically for gaining more and more profits. At last the Tuckman
and Beblin thoery of team developments helps in dividing the work within a team as per the
ability and capability so that earning profits targets would be achieved.

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