Team Management Analysis: Characteristics, Theories, and Impact

This report delves into the realm of team management, analyzing its critical aspects within the context of organizational behavior. It begins by defining team management and highlighting its significance, particularly within Ryanair, emphasizing the importance of effective team management. The report then outlines the characteristics of both effective and ineffective teams, providing insights into factors that contribute to each. It also discusses how the working environment impacts team performance, using Ryanair as a case study to illustrate the point. Furthermore, the report examines the application of group development theories, such as Belbin's team type theory and Tuckman's stages of team development, to improve team effectiveness. Finally, the report concludes by citing relevant references to support the analysis and findings.

ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR

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Team management can be defined as a kind of ability with the help of which an
organization or an individual collaborate and coordinate with group of individuals in order to
perform a task in an efficient and effective manner. Effective team management within Ryanair
is extremely important as it can help them in reducing unnecessary conflicts among team
members, helps in achieving desired aim and objectives in a much better and appropriate
manner.
Five characteristics of effective team
 Same goal aligned with organization’s vision and mission statement. Same goal helps in
achieve target objectives in a much better manner
 Open communication: Open communication between team members helps in reducing
changes of misunderstanding, resolve issues within team members and enhances
understanding among them.
 Supporting taking risk: understanding between team members of an effective team have
better understanding due to which each team member support each other for taking risk
(Alexander, Bloom and Taylor, 2020).
 Defined roles: each and every team member of an effective team has pre-defined roles and
responsibilities.
 Encourage different opinion: in an effective team different opinion are encouraged so that
more appropriate and effective solution can be identified that can be used to achieve target
much easily.
Five characteristics of ineffective team
 Team members lack commitment towards achievement of common goal and no one take
ownership or responsibility of a particular task.
 Roles and responsibilities of team members are not defined clearly defined because of which
conflicts within team members can arise.
 No proper procedure through which conflicts can be resolved
 Lack of trust and openness because of which misunderstanding within team members
because of which it can become difficult to achieve desired aim and objective.
 Insufficient resources is another characteristic due to which difficulties in reach target goal
can be faced by team members.
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Factors that can help in improving an ineffective team
 Provision of training is one of the most common factors that can help in bringing
improvement within ineffective team as training can help in development of desired skills
within all the team members.
 Predefining roles and responsibilities of all the team members can help in reducing chances
of conflicts and can help in completing a task within defined time period (Couturier, 2018).
 Setting realistic goals that can be achieved by team efforts can also help in motivating team
members to work upon achievement of desired goals
Reason for weak team performance
Yes, working environment can be one of the reasons behind weak team performance.
Working environment can work as a satisfaction level for employees that help in motivating
them then so that they can work upon enhancing their overall performance of employees. But not
having an appropriate working environment can degrade team performance. For example:
Ryanair had bad reputation of customer service and job satisfaction this was majorly because
they did not have an appropriate working environment due to which employee turnover was
increasing and customer service was getting degraded.
Ways in which group development theories be useful for developing teams
Group development theories are useful for team development in many ways: Belbin team
type theory help in defining roles and responsibilities of all the team embers on the basis of their
strengths and weakness. This theory helps in defining nine main team roles that helps in
development of an effective team. Whereas, Tuckman theory helps in development of an
effective team in four main stages. Using these theories an organization can develop an effective
team.
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REREFENCES
Books and Journals
Alexander, D., Bloom, G.A. and Taylor, S.L., 2020. Female Paralympic athlete views of
effective and ineffective coaching practices. Journal of Applied Sport
Psychology. 32(1). pp.48-63.
Couturier, M.F., 2018. Identification of Ineffective Team Members Using Normalized Peer
Ratings. Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA).
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