Analysis of Team Dynamics, Cohesiveness, and Organizational Efficiency

This report, focusing on organizational behavior, explores the critical roles of team dynamics, diversity, and cohesiveness in enhancing organizational efficiency. It examines how diverse teams and effective team cohesion can foster positive team behaviors, leading to improved performance. The report references key articles, including those by Yeager and Nafukho (2012) and Lvina, Johns, and Vandenberghe (2018), to analyze the impact of team political skills and team composition on team effectiveness. The analysis covers theoretical frameworks related to individual differences, team formation, and the practical implications for team development, recruitment, and training within organizations. It also presents findings from studies involving student project teams and business work teams to illustrate the relationship between team political competencies, task and social cohesion, and overall team performance, offering valuable insights for organizational leaders and managers seeking to optimize team dynamics and achieve organizational goals.

Running head: ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
Organizational behaviour

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Table of Contents
1) How team dynamic and diversity support Positive Team behavior that will an impact on
organizational efficiency.......................................................................................................................3
Yeager, K. L., & Nafukho, F. M. (2012). Developing diverse teams to improve performance in the
organizational setting. European Journal of Training and Development, 36(4), 388-408.................3
2) how team cohesiveness support Positive Team behavior that will an impact on organizational
efficiency...............................................................................................................................................4
Lvina, E., Johns, G., & Vandenberghe, C. (2018). Team political skill composition as a determinant
of team cohesiveness and performance. Journal of Management, 44(3), 1001-1028.........................4
References.............................................................................................................................................5

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1) How team dynamic and diversity support Positive Team behaviour that will an impact on
organizational efficiency
Yeager, K. L., & Nafukho, F. M. (2012). Developing diverse teams to improve performance
in the organizational setting. European Journal of Training and Development, 36(4), 388-
408.
This article discusses that application of teams within firm provided the existing trend
concerning globalization, transformations of population, aging employees, particularly in
high-income nations, makes concern about diverse development of team critically. This
research aims for addressing concern about diversity of team and performance of team by
assessment of theory as well as, practical investigation.
A review about theories that could pertain to individual distinguishes and formation of team
such as mental models, theory of social identity, theory of social comparison as well as,
theory of chaos was used in this research. Along with this, team development and diversity
related to literature were assessed for addressing the ways for creating diverse and effective
teams. The approach is implemented for reviewing literature is restriction of this
investigation. Since authors have missed a evaluation in significant aspects associated with
team diversity and performance. This paper focuses on diversity concerns associated with
individual distinguishes that considers team formation and recommends approaches i.e.
required for creating effective teams.

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2) how team cohesiveness support Positive Team behaviour that will an impact on
organizational efficiency
Lvina, E., Johns, G., & Vandenberghe, C. (2018). Team political skill composition as a
determinant of team cohesiveness and performance. Journal of Management, 44(3), 1001-
1028.
This investigation assesses role related to team political competencies in estimating
effectiveness of team. This research extends existing paradigm about individual political
competencies as well as, contributing to team effectiveness literature. This article also
provides the theoretical structure regarding team political skill composition as well as, testing
model in which, task along with, social cohesion mediate association among team political
competencies and performance of team. As per result obtained through 189 student project
teams as well as, 28 business work teams, this research illustrated that team political
competency advantageous is extended to groups.
Under both samples, team political competency directly associated with objective and
subjective performance related to the team. Between different teams regarding political skill
composition models, communication among group competency standard deviation and mean
was addressed as a significant predictor related to team emergent states and results. Along
with this, team political skill was associated with objective team performance through the
task along with, social cohesion in student team as well as, through task cohesion in work
teams. Moreover, several firm implications are extended to training, recruitment as well as
the development of the team.

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References
Lvina, E., Johns, G., & Vandenberghe, C. (2018). Team political skill composition as a
determinant of team cohesiveness and performance. Journal of Management, 44(3),
1001-1028.
Yeager, K. L., & Nafukho, F. M. (2012). Developing diverse teams to improve performance
in the organizational setting. European Journal of Training and Development, 36(4),
388-408.