HRM4002 People in Organisations Report: Case Study Analysis

This report examines the dynamics of people within organizations, focusing on the critical aspects of team motivation and development. The report begins with an introduction that highlights the importance of employees in achieving business growth, specifically referencing Johnsons of Whixley, a major nursery company in Europe. It delves into the concept of effective teams through motivation, emphasizing the Equity Theory of motivation, which suggests fair treatment and equal opportunities are essential for employee engagement. The report then transitions to team development theories, particularly focusing on Tuckman's stages of team development (Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning), to illustrate the importance of proper communication, goal orientation, and collaboration. The conclusion reiterates the significance of leadership in fostering an effective and efficient business environment and ensuring employee effectiveness to achieve organizational goals. The report includes references to academic sources to support its findings. The case study approach provides practical examples and recommendations for improving team performance and overall organizational success.

People in organisations

Table of content
 Introduction
 Effective team through motivation.
 Team development theories
 Conclusion
 References

INTRODUCTION
 Every company have lots of people involve in their business activities they are the one
which helps the business to achieve the future growth.
 Employees are the key which helps to make the business more profitable by their
effective and efficient performance in the business activities.
 This report determines the people in the business of Johnsons of Whixley which is
largest company of nursery in the Europe.
 There is the evaluation of different ways which is used by the company to motivate
their employees. Different roles of the leader are explained under this file.

Effective team through motivation.
 In order to build an effective team through motivation, Johnsons of
Whixley should follow Equity theory of motivation.
 Equity theory given by John Stacey Adam, is one of the employee
motivation theories. It illustrates that only salary and other
incentives doesn't motivate employees.
 It refers that providing one employee promotion or salary hike can
be demotivating for others.
 When employees feel equally and fairly treated they will feel
motivated, but in case they feel ill-treated or unfairly, this will
result in demotivation of employees.

CONT..
 By following this theory, Johnsons of Whixley should make sure that every employee in
their organization is treated fairly and equally, so that they will be motivated enough to
work with each other.
 Company, because by doing this, organization's productivity will enhance. Johnsons of
Whixley should make sure no employee feel isolated.
 Encourage and motivating team work will also result in strengthening bonds of team
members.
 Johnsons of Whixley should encourage practices that promotes healthy and good
working environment.
 If employees will feel happy and motivated they will be more engaged in team work to
contribute effectively. Johnsons of Whixley should applaud and reward the teams which
have accomplished a particular goal.

CONT..
 They should also reward each and every member of a team to make them feel
motivated and encourage them in building effective teams in future too.
 Johnsons of Whixley should also make sure employees are having enough fun while
working in a team.
 Having fun at workplace motivates employees and boost employee productivity and
this results in efficient team building. Johnsons of Whixley should identify necessities
of every employee and motivate them accordingly.
 They should also motivate their employees in overcoming their fears to ease effective
team building process.

Team development theories
 To get success in the business, there is effective team building is required. Teams need
to possess these characteristics to work together.
 Teams should have proper communication, so that no misunderstanding would be take
place (Ahuja, Srivastava and Padhy, 2017).
 Focused towards achieving the goals. As they should have clear vision about their
target.
 Contribution of each member in the teams should be equal and fair. Team members
should possess equal share of engagement in the given tasks. So it would be completed
on time.
 Collaboration and Supportive to each other, each team member give support to each
other. It brings positivity at workplace.

CONT..
Effective Team Building theory proposed by the Tuckman.
Tuckman's team building theory includes five steps which are discussed below:
 Forming: In this stage team members are assembled and allocation of tasks. In this
initial step of team building they behave independently and unaware of each other.
 Storming: In the second stage team members start supporting the task and suggest
new ideas relevant to complete it. Also, the relationships made or broken among
them during this stage (Siregar, Pane and Ruman, 2018). They show their
capabilities and sometime they even challenge their team leaders as well.
 Norming: In third stage the team moves to work in harmony and support each
others. They give their contribution in the team, they agreed on the mutually
decided rules to operate the team. Sometimes team leaders step back, to give the
chance to deserving candidate and appoint him to handle greater responsibility.

CONT…
 Performing: In the era of high performance, not every team can achieve the
performing stage. The teams which performs well are defined by the ir dedication,
independence, knowledge and motivation along with the competence. They have
collaborative decision-making criteria with possessing respects and attention towards
each other.
 Adjourning and Transforming: This is last stage of effective team building, as team
can be return to any stage of this model. So it fails to attain the stability in making
strong teams. There are various reason for the breaking of the teams like no mutual
understanding, ego, attitude, unawareness towards given tasks and unsupportive
behaviour possessed by the individual in the team (Fritz, Deschenes and Pandey, 2018).
So it leads to adjourning stage and transforming the team by replacing the particular
team member who is not eligible to stay in the team. Sometimes whole team is again
developed to achieve the desired success.

CONCLUSION
 From the above study it can be concluded that different roles and functions of leader
are essential to make the business effective and efficient.
 Organization success largely depends on effectiveness of their employees and their
require to achieve goals and objective of business.
 Quality work done by employees help organization to achieve goals and attract
customers more easily.
 People maintain effectiveness of organizations products and services. Johnsons of
Whixley is one of the leasing company in Europe and need to make their employees
work effectively for their success.

REFERENCES
 Books and Journals:
 Ahmed, A., Siantonas, G. and Siantonas, N., 2017. The 13 key performance indicators
for highly effective teams. Routledge.
 Al Rahbi, D., Khalid, K. and Khan, M., 2017. The effects of leadership styles on team
motivation. Academy of Strategic Management Journal.
 Andrejczuk and et.al., 2018. The composition and formation of effective teams:
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 Cheng, R. and Johnson, A., 2016. Motivation and means: How and why IPD and lean
lead to success.