University Report: Importance of Teamwork in Workplace and Systems

This report examines the critical role of teamwork in the workplace, highlighting its impact on employee motivation, unity, and communication. It details how teamwork reduces workload, increases efficiency and productivity, and fosters a positive working environment. The report further explores how teamwork enhances workplace synergy, promotes diverse ideas, and supports employee growth and skill development. It also emphasizes the benefits of teamwork in risk management, leadership development, and departmental coordination, concluding with its overall importance in achieving organizational goals and fostering a strong work ethic. The report references various books, journals, and online resources to support its findings.

Managing People and Systems
(Assessment 2)

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Importance of Teamwork at Workplace......................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Teamwork refers to the concept in which a particular people form a team and work
together in order to fulfil the objectives of team (Judge, 2017). Report will highlight the
importance of teamwork at workplace.
MAIN BODY
Importance of Teamwork at Workplace
Teamwork refers to the combined activities of the group members who are doing this in
order to achieve the group objectives and goals. Teamwork is a key component for any
organization as it plays a crucial role in organization. The importance of teamwork at workplace
are as follows -
Teamwork motivates unity in the workplace as there are group of people who are
working together. This lead them to communicate with each other which increases and builds the
friendship between them. Friendship is considered as a based of trust and understanding. When
members started trusting and understanding each other, this would lead them to connect with
each other emotionally which cause to creation of unity between them. It is very important for
the organization to face challenges and achieve the organizational goals.
Teamwork lead to reduce the workload and members do their work with focus which lead
to increase the efficiency and productivity which is good for the organization because when work
is productive and efficient so client or customers are satisfied with the company and their
products & services which increases the demand for the same which increase the profitability of
the company and mouth of the word plays an important role in the organization which increase
the customer based for the company as well as make existing customers loyal towards company
(Ghaferi and Dimick, 2016).
Teamwork promotes the good working environment as in team, members are on talking
terms with each other this would lead to good communication with each other which make
members to share their thoughts with each others. This lead members to become happy and
satisfied. Also, if there are any chances of conflict between members so they would sort out them
with each other without any impact on the team or work. This would create a good working
environment in which every members and departments of the company are working peacefully
and coordinated.
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Different personality of members are working together in the team. This lead members to
learn from each other something whether its mistakes or its some attributes or working style.
This lead another members to do perform better by learning from each other. Also, when
members are working with each other, this would lead them to compensate their strengths and
weaknesses which lead to reduction in errors by team members and improves the performance of
team which lead company performance good. Also, there are high chances for the members to
acquired the skills and knowledge which make them better professional human.
Teamwork enhances the workplace synergy by supporting sharing tasks and goals,
cooperation between members. Synergy refers to the concept which occurs when two or more
resources come together to make a grateful impact rather than they would make impact
separately. Thus, members work together which make feel them a grater sense of attainment
towards results and do better performance with team at a higher level. This would lead to better
results from workplace synergy (Körner and et.al, 2015).
In teamwork, members are diverse from each other. When they talk to each other on
some issues or works or they are doing brainstorming, this lead to fresh ideas come from team
which is essential for the growth of organization. This also enhance the creativity of members to
do work differently which helps in reducing the cost and increase the quality of work. This
would lead company to reduce the costs which lead to reduction in price which attracts the
customers more towards company and increase the production, productivity and profitability of
the company.
When members work together and share a task in the team than they feel that their work
are valuable and without their work, team won't be able to achieve the team goals. Thus, it would
members to be focus. They also become supportive when a team member won't understand or
face difficulties in completion of his task. This lead team members to feel belonging and
commitment with each other. Also, this lead to work done faster and operate the whole activities
efficiently.
When team members feel belonging and emotionally connected with each other, this
make members view themselves as an integral part of the team. This lead individuals to achieve
his/her target as they think that if he will achieve his target them team will be able to achieve
team overall targets. This not only boosts the confident of the single members, but also enhance
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the team morale within the team which is beneficial for the organization itself (Körner and et.al.,
2016).
A businessman brings new business in which various risks which can not be handle by a
single person. Thus, when team is working together, the risk is also shared which lead to
reduction in pressure also and members together face the difficulties which lead them to motivate
and to do work better in order to reduce the risks and gain better return.
Teamwork also creates a better leaders for the future for the business. When member
observe the team leader closely, this would lead member to acquired leadership skills such as
good communicator, good listener, good motivator, high morale, create better vision for the
organization, know different types of personalities and behaviours, know about the strengths and
weaknesses of the team etc. This lead member to become better leader in the future.
There are various kinds of people in team whose strengths, weaknesses, capacities, skills
and knowledge are different from each other. When team members get to know about these
aspects, they start doing delegation of tasks accordingly which lead to increase in work
efficiency and improved the quality of goods and services. Overall the work of organization
improved which lead organization to gain more profits and enhance its goodwill.
When in the team, there are people who have different working style, skills, knowledge,
abilities and tasks. This lead them to compete with each other in order to improve the
performance and efficiency, which encourage them to do work in proper way and this creates a
healthy competition (Salas and et.al., 2015).
Teamwork is very important in the organization due to department. There are various
department in the organization in which lack of communication and co-ordination is existed.
Thus, teamwork plays an important role in departmental communication and creates co-
ordination between every activities of the organization this would lead to reduction in costs,
increase in the profits and achievement of the goals and objectives at or before time.
Teamwork is one of the most useful tools for the organizational change. Initiatives such
as restarting the business process, improved the total quality management or new product
development almost always depend on effective team efforts. Thus, for bringing something new
in the organization, teamwork plays an important role.
Teamwork generally plays an important role within a company that effect employee’s
behaviour and performance. Employees who are working in teams become the standard
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determined by the organization. By conducting teamwork, a company could improve man-power
resources and its utilization and potentially bring improvement in the behaviour and performance
of the individual (Importance of Teamwork in Organizations, 2019).
Team and team work must be encouraged at workplace in the organization as it
strengthens the relations among the employees and the tasks can be done at a faster speed.
Workload is shared and individuals feel motivated to perform better than his team members and
also for his team too.
CONCLUSION
Teamwork plays an important role in organization because it creates team spirit and
strong work ethic which lead to unity in every members and co-ordination in every aspects of
organization which in the end helps company to achieve the organizational goals.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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.
Judge, K., 2017. Teamwork Can Change Everything. Journal of Infusion Nursing. 40(2). p.90.
Körner, M., and et.al, 2015. Relationship of organizational culture, teamwork and job
satisfaction in interprofessional teams. BMC health services research. 15(1). p.243.
Körner, M., and et.al., 2016. Interprofessional teamwork and team interventions in chronic care:
A systematic review. Journal of Interprofessional Care. 30(1). pp.15-28.
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
Importance of Teamwork in Organizations. 2019. [ONLINE]. Available through:
<https://smallbusiness.chron.com/importance-teamwork-organizations-14209.html>
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