Capstone Human Resources Management: Teamwork Strategies Analysis

This report addresses the critical role of teamwork in contemporary organizations and the responsibilities of human resource professionals in fostering a collaborative culture. It highlights specific strategies HR professionals can implement to enhance team orientation, such as providing executive support, creating a 'gift culture,' improving communication, and building interdependence and trust. The report emphasizes the importance of assessing organizational health and identifying potential negative issues within a team. It details tools like needs assessments and SWOT analysis that HR professionals can utilize to diagnose organizational challenges, pinpoint weaknesses, and ensure high productivity and low employee turnover. The document underscores the significance of teamwork in achieving organizational objectives and the need for HR to manage diverse teams effectively.

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Capstone Human Resources Management Assignment
In the contemporary world, teamwork is an integral element of any organization that
wants to survive and grow in the competitive business environment. Human resource
professionals are mandated with the responsibility to ensure that employees produce high
productivity through group-oriented workforce, (Katzenbach and Smith, 2015). This essay
proposes specific strategies human resources professional can enact to create a more team-
oriented, collaborative culture in the organization and specific tools or tests a human resource
professional can utilize that will assess the health of the organization or highlight potential
negative issues within an organization. Team-oriented culture is not easy to establish and
maintain, therefore, human resource professionals should possess conceptual skills to diagnose
any negative element of teamwork in time so as to maintain high productivity and low turnover
in an organization.
Organizations have objectives and they require the collective contribution of every
individual in order to achieve these objectives effectively and efficiently. In order to do this, the
employees and the executive have to work together and focus towards the same direction to
realize the maximum productivity required to achieve organizational goals and objectives. For
instance At Ellard Williams, turnover is up, teamwork is splintered and productivity is down.
There are continual and escalating frictions between employees and it is the responsibility of the
human resource management to handle the situation appropriately. Teams in organizations are
large and consist of people from a diverse culture and personalities thus controls should be put in
place to regulate the interpersonal interaction between individuals, (Levi, 2015). The team
members must learn how to coexist and depend on each other.

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There are several specific strategies a human resources professional can enact to create a
more team-oriented, collaborative culture in the organization. The first strategy is providing
executive support to the employees. Essentially, the success or failure of a team to collaborate
directly reflects the philosophy of the top executives, (Guillaume, Dawson, Otaye‐Ebede,
Woods, and West, 2017). When the top executive in the organization demonstrate collaborative
behaviour among themselves and offer social support to the employees the teams function very
well. The other strategy is by creating a "gift culture" where the executive coach and mentor the
employees to become more skilled in carrying out their responsibilities. The other strategy is to
improve employee communication. Communication is very crucial in creating and maintaining a
team-oriented workforce since it helps people to share useful information easily enabling
coordination of team members. Improving engagement among team members is also helps
improve collaboration among team members. This can be achieved by encouraging socialization
at work and outside work where people can understand each other differences well, (Gibert,
Tozer, and Westoby, 2017). This will reduce the friction between employees and will eventually
contribute to high productivity in the organization. Building interdependence and trust is another
way of creating a team-oriented culture where work can be shared among the team members.
These strategies and many more will help create a collaborative culture in an organization.
A human resource professional has to be able to highlight potential negative issues
within an organization or assess the health of the organization. There are several tools or tests
that HR professionals can use to assess an organization. The needs assessment can help the
human resource professional to determine the need in an organization is by comparing the
performance against the expectations. Recognizing the gap between the organizational goals or
expectations and real performance enables human resource personnel to make the appropriate

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decisions. The tools that can be used include organizational analysis, content analysis,
performance analysis, cost-benefit analysis, training suitability analysis among many more. The
SWOT analysis is the most common tool used tool to carry out all the analysis mentioned above.
This analysis can be used to analyze the performance, content, work and the teams and
organizations at large thus pinpointing the negative areas that need to be fixed. The SWOT
analysis is an acronym for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, (Abdel-Basset,
Mohamed, and Smarandache, 2018). This analysis gives a comprehensive understanding of the
factors affecting the operation of an organization both internal and external. This will help the
organization recognize loopholes that need to be fixed in for the organization to realize its
objectives. These tools are very important for human resource professionals in diagnosing an
organization.
In summary, teamwork is an integral element of any organization that wants to survive
and grow in the competitive business environment. Teams in organizations are large and consist
of people from diverse cultural and personalities thus controls should be put in place to regulate
the interpersonal interaction between individuals. There are several specific strategies a human
resources professional can enact to create a more team-oriented, collaborative culture in the
organization. There are also several tools or tests that HR professionals can use to assess an
organization and solve them to ensure productivity and creativity.

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References
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Levi, D. (2015). Group dynamics for teams. Sage Publications.
Guillaume, Y. R., Dawson, J. F., Otaye‐Ebede, L., Woods, S. A., & West, M. A. (2017).
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