Importance of Teams in Organisational Performance

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Introduction
 In an organisational context, a leader is the individuals who are in charge of developing the
strategies that are required to overcome the market barriers and competition (Mahembe and
Engelbrecht 2014).
 Leaders inspire vision to the subordinates
 Motivate the subordinates for the fulfilment of the vision
 Execute the strategy for fulfilling the vision
 Effectively builds a team for effectively fulfilling the vision and gain organisational productivity.
 Leaders individually differ in the style or approach of doing what is necessary.
 Mahembe and Engelbrecht (2014) indicated the styles are democratic, autocratic, supportive,
charismatic and transformational depending on the nature of the individual.

Importance of teams in
organisational performance
 Group support: The members of the team support each other in
performing task requirements to fulfil short and long-term
objectives (Katzenbach and Smith 2015).
 Goals fulfilment: The fulfilment of the organisational objectives is
easier within a team as the distribution of work helps in the
completion of the tasks faster (Katzenbach and Smith 2015).

Importance of teams in
organisational performance
 Diversity: Chipulu et al. (2014)
showed cultural and ethnic
diversities improve the team
relationship and thereby
improving idea generation due to
its origin from different heritages.
 Collective strength: Individual
strength of the team members
compensate for the drawbacks to
overcome the obstacles for
fulfilling the objectives
(Mahembeand Engelbrecht 2014).
 Problem Solving: the team
members are able to solve
problems faster in comparison
individuals by generating unique
ideas in a short span of time.

Importance of teams in
organisational performance
 Communication: effective communication can be achieved
in teams, which in turn facilitates the transparency to
provide effective task completion (Katzenbach and Smith
2015).
 Workflow Speed: Teamwork cultivates cohesion within the
individual members and improves the decision-making
within the organisation (Katzenbach and Smith 2015).

Autocratic Team Leadership
 In this leadership style, the team members feel dominated by
their leader.
 The orders, assign tasks and duties without consultation, and this
negatively influences the bonding within the team (De Hoogh et
al. 2015).
 The creative decision making is also hampered with this form of
leadership and might give rise to conflict within the team