Teamwork and Organizational Success: A Comprehensive Report

This report delves into the critical role of teamwork within organizations, emphasizing its multifaceted benefits. It highlights how teamwork fosters innovation through brainstorming and diverse perspectives, leading to competitive advantages. The report details how teamwork cultivates a positive organizational culture by promoting communication, respect, and trust among team members. It also explores how teamwork enhances individual and organizational efficiency by leveraging members' strengths and mitigating weaknesses, ultimately boosting profitability. Furthermore, the report underscores the importance of shared goals, team spirit, and the encouragement of creativity and learning. It concludes by examining how teamwork reduces workload, enhances customer service, and improves overall financial performance. The report references various sources to support its findings, providing a comprehensive overview of teamwork's significance in achieving organizational success.

Managing People And System

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
The importance of teamwork at the workplace............................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Teamwork refers to the combination of the activities, efforts and hard-work of the team
members who are working together as a team in order to achieve the team objectives (What Are
the Benefits of Teamwork in Business?, 2019).
This report will highlight the importance of teamwork in the organization.
MAIN BODY
The importance of teamwork at the workplace
Teamwork is an important factor for the organization's success and without teamwork,
team won't work in a better way. Thus, teamwork is crucial and essential for the professional
world. There are following points which define the importance of teamwork, which are as
follows -
For the successful organization, Company need to do some innovative things. For the
innovation, company needs new and fresh ideas which can be thrive through teams in which
diverse of people think and work together in the form of brainstorming for bringing new ideas. If
ideas become successful, company can gain competitive advantages over its competitors.
Teamwork boosts the good organizational culture. People who are working in the team,
have to communicate with other members. This lead to creation of understanding between
members. They start respect and trust each other. They become happy with each other. This
overall creates a good working cultural environment in the organization.
In teamwork, members' efficiency improves because when members get to know about
each other, they also know about the behaviour, nature, strengths and weaknesses which impact
their work. Thus, accordingly, members are given tasks as stated in, which make them experts in
the tasks and improve their efficiency. When all the members' efficiency improve, organizational
efficiency also improves, this lead organization to increase its profitability.
In teamwork, not all the members and their personal skills and attributes are same which
lead them to weak in some aspect and expert in some another aspect of the organization. But
when members work in team, their weaknesses are cover up by another members' strengths
which lead to creation of supportive environment in the organization (Ghaferi and Dimick,
2016).
In teamwork, members not only think about their personal goals and objectives, they
think about the team's objectives and goals which lead members to put their efforts in achieving
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their objectives so that team can meet with its deadlines. This lead company to achieve its
objectives on the time or before the time which is beneficial for the team as well as organization.
Teamwork encourages the team spirit which is beneficial for the organization, as
members will avoid conflicts and communicate in case of any confusion or misunderstanding or
miscommunication. This lead organizational environment to be efficient. Efficient members are
satisfied members.
In teamwork, every members' work are valued. When member feels that their work is
being valued by another members, this lead to increase the confidence and morale. It also
increases the collaboration, strong sense of belonging and deep commitment towards team. This
lead to boosts the team spirit and work effectively and efficiency.
Teamwork is nothing without team. For the great results, teams and its all the members
have to work together. For the better result, members are motivated to push up their other
members to work together. This lead to improvement in leadership skill and preparation of a
better leader for the organization for the better future.
Teamwork encourages the creativity and learning. When members of the team are
working together, they learn so many things whether it is related to the personal or professional
aspects, from each other. It also increases the creativity which improves the productivity of the
organization which lead to produce good quality products and services at the reasonable price.
This help organization to attract more customers and enhances its goodwill in the competitive
market (Gustavsson, 2016).
If there is workload in the organization, teamwork reduce the workload and work
pressure bear by the members because teamwork encourages the sharing factor where work, risk
and rewards are shared with all the members of the team. Like this, it not only reduce the work
load, it also reduces the risks which comes along with the work.
Teamwork creates fun at work place. As, teamwork encourage the friendships. When
there are strong friendships between team members, it brings humour, fun and pleasure at work
place which create a happy work place at the organization. Happy work place creates a positive
attitude and increase the productivity of the members.
While talking about customer products and services, the company can have so many
benefits because the whole team and teamwork brings their 100% to provide the best quality
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products and services to the customers. It also helps company to make a good impression on the
customers because a good team creates a strong work ethic at organization.
Teamwork also enhance the co-operation and co-ordination between various departments
and executives of all the level of the organization regarding their activities which help company
to achieve their goals and objectives. This lead to earn profits for the company, departments and
employees. Overall the financial position of the company will improve. Also, employer brand
will also create where employees and employers are willing to work, this lead company to have
talented and best employees and employers (Goosen, 2015).
Teamwork helps in promoting a flatter organizational structure that reduces the control
and power for higher positions at workplace. In the team work environment, members are
capable of managing themselves and taking correct decisions. This lead manager to focus on
another important activities which required manager's attention and time rather than focus on the
employees' activities. Like this team work helps in cost-saving for an organization.
A team that works together will encourage a sense of belongingness, loyalty and synergy
in the organization and these three attributes will shape the good organizational culture which is
positive one too. Working in a positive environment promotes the satisfaction and happiness,
which makes things done on time and perfect. After all, the team becomes a community in which
everyone understands their roles, responsibilities and duties.
Team and teamwork helps company and its employees to adopt the organizational change
effectively. This change can be anything like – change in management team or change in
business model or change in business activities or change in company's structure etc. Teams are
tended to adopt the change easily rather than an individual employee. Because team is not
changing and that stability make members relaxed and accept the change in the company.
In team work, there is always a healthy competition between team members. Competition
is considered to be good for the members as well as for the organization. As, it encourages
members to perform better than other members of their team. Like this team performance
improves and personal & professional growth is happening (Salas and et.al., 2015).
Teamwork can help organization to make its business more flexible. By bringing
employees together from different backgrounds for a project in one team, problems or challenges
can be easily solved or faced. Because there are problems in one area, the whole team can deal
with them and the work can be done at very fast pace.
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A new project which is assign to the individual so that individual will get nervous and
lose its confidence for taking risks. While the same project will be assign to a team, this will
make team more confident as they will share the responsibilities of completion of project
together and work on that project together which lead company to get more projects and
company will become a good and risk taking company, whose return is high (Driskell, Salas and
Driskell, 2018).
CONCLUSION
From the above study, it has been summarised that teamwork plays an important role in
the organization. It boosts the work speed and work efficiency of the members of the
organization.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Driskell, J.E., Salas, E. and Driskell, T., 2018. Foundations of teamwork and
collaboration. American Psychologist. 73(4). p.334.
Ghaferi, A.A. and Dimick, J.B., 2016. Importance of teamwork, communication and culture on
failure‐to‐rescue in the elderly. British Journal of Surgery. 103(2). pp.e47-e51.
Goosen, S., 2015. The importance of teamwork in nursing. Professional Nursing Today. 19(3).
pp.4-6.
Gustavsson, T., 2016. Distributed project teamwork metrics: A quantitative project teamwork
behavior analytics study of Projectplace.
Salas, E., and et.al., 2015. Understanding and improving teamwork in organizations: A
scientifically based practical guide. Human Resource Management. 54(4). pp.599-622.
Online
What Are the Benefits of Teamwork in Business?. 2019. [ONLINE]. Available through:
<https://smallbusiness.chron.com/benefits-teamwork-business-3250.html>
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