Analysis of Teams and Groups in Organizational Performance

This report delves into the critical role of teams and groups in organizational settings. It emphasizes how effective leadership and management strategies are essential for achieving company goals. The paper highlights the significance of employee motivation, team dynamics, and the implementati...Read More

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The main aim of this task is to explain role of teams and groups in an organization. No
company can achieve their goals and objectives without team and group. The paper explains how
managers encourage and inspire employees for doing work effectively and successfully. The
employees are the backbone of the firm. The managers and leaders play a critical role to
motivate the workers for enhancing and increasing the production of the company. Furthermore,
it explains how managers resolve issues of the workers and how leaders maintain coordination
with them. It depicts how managers formulate new strategies and policies to manage the
performance of the employees.
The team refers to a group of people who work together to accomplish the desired goals
and objectives of the organization. Team members share their authority and responsibility with
each other to gain long-term vision and mission of the firm. They generate more profits and
revenue for the company. Team leader plays a significant role in a team; he is the person who
provides direction, guidance and instructions to a group of individuals within the organization.
Team leaders serve enormous roles in an organization; they communicate with team members
and monitor their activities. They provide motivation to the workers to perform tasks and duties
effectively.
Team plays a vital role in every organization for accomplishing the goals and objectives
of the company. Team members work together in order to maximize profits and revenue. Thus, it
improves the operations of the company and also benefits the workers who participate in the
groups. The team has the benefit of a wide range of skills, experience and knowledge. The
employees can diversify their skills and knowledge; also it helps to gain competitive advantages
in the organization (Franz, 2012). Furthermore, team members share their ideas, views and
opinion and they maintain proper communication in the firm (Griffin, 2013). If people work in a
team or group, it will help to create sense of urgency to complete the desired goals and projects
on given time period with maximum efforts. In addition, team leader encourages employees for
doing work effectively and efficiently. They resolve queries of the workers and maintain
reciprocal relationship with them. Team members work together and separately to attain success
in their tasks which helps to serve in promoting the overall welfare and success of the company
(Katzenbach & Smith, 2015). Along with this, if employees work together as a team within an
organization, every employee learns from one another. It will help to increase and enhance the
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productivity and outcomes for the firm. Team members work for common goal and purpose
instead of separate goal. In this way, teamwork plays an imperative role in organizational
effectiveness and efficiency. The employees can easily adapt new technology which is needed in
the organization with the help of teamwork. Also, the team guides the organization in managing
its change process while introducing new and innovative ideas. Managers and team leaders play
an important role to encourage performance of the employees (Austin, 2013). There are many
strategies through which the managers can enhance and manage performance of teams and
groups that have been discussed below.
Support innovation: Innovation is required to manage the performance of the workers.
Innovation and creativity helps to generate new ideas and thoughts in the minds of employees.
Also, it facilitates to generate optimum results and revenue within the organization. Apart from
this, regular breaks should be given to the workers and informal brainstorming sessions should
be conducted by the team leaders and managers in order to manage the productivity of the
employees. Moreover, managers should maintain favorable working conditions at the workplace
(Camisón & Villar-López, 2014).
Effective leadership: Innovation comes from motivation. Teams and groups should be led by
effective leaders that go beyond schedules and budgets. Team leaders also inspire and motivate
each team members to attain their personal while keeping strategic objectives and goals in mind.
Leaders shall explain organizational mission and vision with employees to attain better results
and outcomes. It is an important and effective strategy to manage performance of the workers.
Effective leadership also helps to create dynamic culture in the organization. Furthermore,
leaders and managers assist to take risks and challenges in order to reach higher level of
productivity (Yukl, 2013).
Hire the right people: Hiring right and well people can become the most important factor to
manage the productivity of the employees. Also, it contributes to a firm’s success and facilitates
to overcome on the competitors in the market. The firm should check the background,
knowledge and experience of the candidate while hiring the new candidate. Along with this,
dynamic interview and hiring process must be implemented to select appropriate and potential
applicant.
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Keep learning: Productivity is increased when team members have all the skills and knowledge
which are needed to success and growth of the firm. Leaders and managers should provide
training and development coaching to the team members in order to improve performance and
effectiveness of the workers (Burke & Noumair, 2015).
Streamline processes: Managers should initiate streamline processes within the organization to
maximize productivity of the employees as well as organization. They should focus on various
barriers and challenges which are faced by the employees in the workplace. In addition, effective
communication can become a significant factor to manage the productivity of teams and groups.
Two way communication system must be followed by teams while working in the firm. Team
communication must be factual and transparent. It is unique approach to encourage team and
group for doing work efficiently.
Build commitment: Leaders and managers should use unique values to build and develop
employee commitment. An effective business plan and strategy must be made to motivate the
workers in order to gain competitive benefits in the company. Recognize team members who are
willing to take risks and challenges for initiating new ideas and opinion. It will also help to
reduce absenteeism in the organization. In this way, the firm can attain long term goals and
objectives (Mowday, Porter & Steers, 2013).
Organization is responsible for making the employees efficient and active in the
workplace. Leaders motivate the workers which help them to develop their confidence and trust.
This gives the company good results in a long run. Any organization functions in a better way
only when they are given praise about the kind of work they provide to the company (Schunk &
Zimmerman, 2012). The effective practices that are followed by an organization in order to
perform in the company’s growth also includes time to time conference, seminars and meetings
which help the employees to develop interest in knowing more and more about the activities of
the firm. These practices enable the workers to put efforts while working for the company. The
effective practices help the organization to make better outputs and results (Cummings &
Worley, 2014).
There are various issues seen while working in the company. The issues include
misunderstanding among employees, lack of proper knowledge regarding any topic relating to
the company, indiscipline at the workplace, absenteeism etc. can put a bad impact of the
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company on its people and society. The issues are faced by the company also shows impact on
the growth of the employees and it harms the financial position of the company. The good name
of the company sometimes also gets ruined due to such issues. These key issues of the company
questions the techniques and practices adopted by the workers at the workplace. Some other
issues that the company face includes disharmony among employees, reduce in funding due to
loss, disloyalty shown by some employees, etc (Burke, 2017).
In order to avoid such issues it is necessary to make proper strategies and policies in the
organization. The managers and leaders are responsible for making effective strategies and
policies that can enable the growth and success of the business. To avoid such issues, the
company is dependent on its managers to carry out business in a smooth way. The managerial
strategies are important that helps the company to solve the issues and queries in such a way that
it is not repeated again (Awadh & Alyahya, 2013). The proper managerial strategies enhance the
performance and productivity of an organization. The managers make it easy for the company to
deal with those issues in an appropriate manner (Rummler & Brache, 2012). They use the
strategy by involving all the decisions and opinions of each and every person working in the
company. The managers are able to make collective decision which helps the company to solve
the problem with equal opinion and mutual consent. In this way, the firm can easily achieve
desired targets and goals (Armstrong & Taylor, 2014).
The managers must keep an eye on the employees in the workplace. They must know
how to tackle every situation so as to keep the environment of the company a calm place to
work. Managers should possess effective decision making power that can help to solve the
problems raised in the company (Clegg, Kornberger & Pitsis, 2015). They should also encourage
employees for their good work. This can be done so that employees can put efforts in the projects
with more interest. Encouraging the performance of the employees at the workplace makes them
confident while working and therefore company is benefited with such practice. The managers
should know the likes and dislikes of the employee, this helps them to stand on the expectations
of the employees. They should be responsible for solving the problems that create mess in the
company. It is the duty of the manager to serve good working environment to the people working
in the business. They must create a favorable place in the workplace for doing work effectively
(Mone & London, 2014).
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On the above discussion, it has been concluded that groups and teams play a significant
role to accomplish the organizational tasks and goals. Effective strategies are used by the
managers to measure the productivity of the workers. The managers provide favorable and
unique culture and working environment to the employees to maximize the production of the
company. Along with this, they assist employees to make effective decisions. Now it is
recommended that managers should provide rewards, incentives and bonus to the employees to
enhance their performance and productivity. It will help to reduce stress and frustration of the
workers and they will feel happy while working in the organization. Furthermore, leaders should
understand employee’s problems and issues to maintain good relationship with them.
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