Analyzing Team Development and Motivation for Success at Virgin Trains

This presentation analyzes how Virgin Trains builds effective teams through motivation, focusing on the role of motivation theories and team development attributes in achieving organizational success. It examines the application of motivation theories, such as Maslow's Hierarchy, by Virgin Trains' Human Resources to enhance employee productivity. The presentation also highlights the importance of effective teams and the use of theories like Tuckman's theory in team development. Key attributes for team development, including clear role understanding, are discussed. The conclusion emphasizes that effective teams improve quality, task completion, and productivity, fostering collaboration and relationship-building among employees at different regional levels. The presentation references academic sources to support its analysis of motivation and team development within Virgin Trains.

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Table of Content
• Introduction
• Analyse and evaluate the ways in which Virgin Trains may build effective teams through
motivation; identify team development attributes that may contribute to Virgin Trains
success
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
• Every person can feel motivated after
fulfilling of their basic and survival needs to
perform their task better. For the
presentation, Virgin Trains is taken into
consideration was a train operating
company which provides passenger services
to the people in UK.

Analyse and evaluate the ways in which Virgin Trains may
build effective teams through motivation identify team
development attributes that may contribute to success
• Motivation
• Motivation refers to the
individual's desires and needs to feel
dedicated towards achievement of goals.

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• Motivation theory is the survey of knowing what leads
an employee to work in the direction of achieving
goals or growth. By using motivation theory such as
Maslow’s Hierarchy Theory, human Resources
manager of Virgin Trains motivate employees to
become more productive and profitable.

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• Effective Team
• The team of any organisation plays a crucial part in
successful formation of business. To achieve
optimum utilization of resources, a company needs to
form an effective team. The theory, such as
Tuckman's theory is used by Virgin Trains to develop
effective team.

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• Team Development Attributes:
• A big share of success of any business depends on its employees efforts and
performances. Thus it is the major role of businesses to develop their team that can lead to
more productivity. The attributes to develop a team are as follows:
• The leaders can provide clear and detailed understanding of role of each employee of Virgin
Trains to reducing the overlapping of works.

Conclusion
• From the presentation, it is concluded that effective team in organization helps in
enhancing quality, alleviate the completion of tasks properly and maximize productivity.
The team at different regional levels come together once in a while so the employees
interact and build relationship with each other which helps in coordinating their efforts
together.

References
• Jost, P.J., 2014. The economics of motivation and organization: An introduction. Edward
Elgar Publishing.
• Rousseau, V. and Aubé, C., 2010. Team self-managing behaviors and team effectiveness:
The moderating effect of task routineness. Group & Organization Management, 35(6),
pp.751-781.