Teamwork and Global Business: HC3031 Report for Holmes Institute

This report examines the role of teamwork in the global business environment, highlighting its importance in fostering unity, diverse perspectives, efficiency, and synergy. It identifies common issues and problems associated with teamwork, such as lack of trust, absence of team identity, poor communication, decision-making difficulties, and conflict resolution challenges. The report also suggests strategies to encourage effective teamwork, including defining goals, sharing information, inspiring team members, involving teams in decision-making, rewarding excellent teamwork, maintaining work-life balance, and providing constant feedback. The report concludes that teamwork is essential for both individual and organizational success.

Introduction
Teamwork is a kind of work that the teams are best configured to do. It is a kind of work that
helps the individuals to use their strengths in order to complement each other, this helps the
people to come together and build relationships. Teamwork also helps to share vision so that
their strengths are used in a common direction or towards a common goal. Teamwork can be
built in a lot of ways.
Importance of teamwork
 Team work motivates unity
Teamwork has an environment that helps and promotes the atmosphere and also foresters the
relationship, loyalty and friendship.
 Team work offers differing perspectives and feedbacks
Good and effective teamwork helps the organization to have thought diversity and, creativity
of thought.
Team work provides improved efficiency and productivity
Teamwork allows them to share the load of work with other individuals, which reduces the
pressure on one person and it also makes sure that the work or the task is completed in the
given time.
Teamwork provides great opportunities
Teamwork helps people to avoid the mistakes in future and helps them to gain the
perspectives from different angles and they are able to learn thing from more experienced
colleagues.

 Team work promotes synergy
Corporation and encouragement, mutual support shared goals all of these things provides
synergy.
 Teamwork teaches conflict management skills
Teamwork helps in building conflict management skills as the individuals are forced to work
together and are forced to solve the issue or the conflict on their own as they cannot turn to
the management with their issues.
Issues and problems related to teamwork
 Trust
The first and the most important issue that comes in teamwork in the lack of trust among the
team members of the team.
Absence of team identity
The members of the team sometimes do not feel accountable to one another for the goals and
the objectives of the team.
 Lack of open communication
This is a major issue almost in every team. In teamwork people mostly suffer from poor
communication.
Difficulty in decision making process
This is also a major issue as people different ideas, values and believes and sometimes
individuals cannot agree on the same thing (Gaba, 2010).
 Inability to solve the conflicts

Conflicts are something which cannot be resolved and these usually take place when the
tension in an organization is high as people try to make person attacks.
 Deliberating team characteristics
Team characteristics such as the size, location, diversity, demographics and diversity these all
things play important role in the behaviour of the team members in the team.
Ways to encourage team work
 Define goals and set roles
In order to encourage the team work the leaders should outline the responsibilities of the team
as this is one of the most important factors while building a team.
 Share information and listen to others
In order to be productive and reach the goals of the organization it is important that the
member of the team respect each other and trust each other, this can be done by being open
and honest to each other.
 Be patient and inspire the team
All the team member should understand that it is not important that they will get along at
first, but a team should give time to each other slowly team members will be able to get along
with each other.
 Give team active roles in decision making
This thing helps a lot in building a team as by giving the team member’s chance in decision
making makes them feel important in the organization and gives them motivation and
confidence which also helps them to reach the goals of the organization.

 Reward excellent teamwork
In order to build fellowship and relationship in a workplace it is important to have good
recognition programs as this is the best way to appreciate and praise the employees for their
performance and the achievements in teamwork.).
 Maintain balance of work
In a team it is important to maintain balance of work as different team member’s work on
different tasks and everyone try their best to work hard in order to reach the goals of the
organization.
 Give constant feedback
Leaders should give feedbacks to the team on weekly basis so that the team is aware of their
performance. Leaders should give feedback on the completed work.
Conclusion
Through this report it is concluded that teamwork is an important thing for any individual as
well as an organization. The report first discusses the importance of teamwork Next report
discusses the issues and problems related to teamwork. The issues related with teamwork are,
trust, absence of team and lastly the report discusses the ways in which teamwork can be
encouraged.