Leading & Managing Effective Teams: An Analysis of Teamwork Value

This essay critically examines the statement that teams are a waste of time, energy, and money, arguing against this notion by highlighting the crucial role of teamwork in achieving organizational goals. The essay draws upon five peer-reviewed journals to demonstrate the importance of teams in var...Read More

Leading and managing
effective teams

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Essay...........................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES:...............................................................................................................................7
Books and Journals:....................................................................................................................7
Online .........................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
This essay aims to analyse leading and managing teams. In lectures, there is a statement
i.e. "Teams are a complete waste of time, energy, and money. You are better off outsourcing your
work to individual contractors". According to this statement, teams are not required as it is
wastage of time. This essay disagree this statement as team is necessary for achieving the desired
goals. For that purpose, 5 peer reviewed journals are undertaken to disagree this statement. Each
journal is showing that teamwork is necessary in every field and place whether it is a school,
family, healthcare, organisation, etc. With the help of teamwork, an individual is able to achieve
their desired objectives effectively and efficiently (5 Important Reasons Why Teamwork
Matters!, 2017). So in this essay, it will be showing that teams are not a waste of time, money
and energy with the help of arguments.
MAIN BODY
Essay
According to the give statement, it is found that teams are the waste of time, money and
energy. The reason behind this statement is it takes training and development programs that raise
cost and still people are not achieving their goals and objectives (Welp and et.al., 2018). So they
waste their energy, time and money. It is also analysed in this statement that it is better than
creating teams that an individual should outsource their work from other individual contractors.
It reduces the energy, time and money and also able to provide effective results. But the given
statement is not completely valid and that's why it is disagreed. It is necessary for every
individual that they should understand the importance of teamwork. Team is crucial in order to
overcome with big challenges, achieving desired objectives as well as developing skills and
knowledges (Tripathy, 2018). This can be more understand with the help of some published
articles, journals etc. which shows that how it is important.
In today's environment, time plays an important role in every field whether it is for
education or for organisations. According to this statement, it states that team is wastage of time
but actually it is not a complete truth. It is true that people require efforts and time in order to
create an effective team but it provide many benefits after that. An organisation is able to achieve
their goals and objectives with the help of teamwork. Teams are not only required in
organisations but also require in every field such as education, sports, healthcare, etc. This can be

understand with the help of below articles and journals which explain that how teams are helping
in achievement of goals and objectives.
According to Cotton, Roche and Malhotra, 2020, teamwork is very important. They
analysed because of their case in which they faced many hurdles but due to effective teamwork
they were overcame. It is found that even in less number of nurses they were effectively
implement prone position on acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients. Due to
COVID-19, they are unable to interact with other members and they need to implement the prone
ventilations for patents. At that time they found an opportunity in order to improve
multidisciplinary interactions and team building. During pandemic, they used this crisis as an
opportunity in which they enhanced their communication as well as trust for implementation of
proven therapies. This case states that it is very necessary even in health care that teamwork
should be perform in an effective way so that they will achieve their goals and objectives.
According to Galleta-Williams and et.al, 2020, they were analysed the association
between burnout and teamwork among all general practitioners. For that purpose, they conducted
a survey in which they assigned three important themes that were addressing of organisational
barriers which can be threaten teamwork as it was not easy, promotion of team work among all
members, and implementation of improvement strategies. It is found in this journal that it is
necessary for an organisation to create teamwork culture as it helps in reducing burnout and
boosting morale. Day by day the burnout is increasing due to complex nature of business
environment. Employees feeling pressurising and burnout which can be effectively mitigate with
the help of teamwork. So from this journal, it is clearly found that teamwork needs to encourage
in every sector so that efficiency can be improved and reducing the pressure.
Today's lifestyle of employees get very disturbed and results in decreasing the production
of employees. According to Ogbonnaya, Tillman and Gonzalez, 2018, they indicate that
teamwork is providing a positive association between patients satisfaction and employees' well
being. Teamwork is boosting work engagement and job satisfaction which ultimately increase
the work culture in healthcare organisations. Due to this employees are able to give their best and
because of that they are achieving organisational goals and objectives. It is also found in this
journal that this indirect relationship can be improved with the help of proper training and
development programs. That means teamwork can be enhanced and improved by giving proper
training and development program so that an individual is able to give their best in organisation.

Organisation theory supports even in healthcare systems as they also have employees. It is also
found that due to job satisfaction employees feel motivated and they performed very well which
also results in increasing the satisfaction of patients.
Acoprding to Nowaskie and et.al., 2020, they are also find that teamwork is very
effective in order to provide job satisfaction. They found in dementia care that now people are
needed a trained and skilled healthcare workforce which are able to provide effective care. In
order to deal with the increasing number of dementia cases, care coordinator assistants need an
effective teamwork so that they are performing their work by collaboratively. Due to regular
increasing in demands of people, it is very necessary for all care coordinators assistants that they
should develop an effective teamwork so that patients get best care. It is very obvious that care
coordinators are well trained and work in a team then they are more able to communicate with
each other. This will leads to perfect care as well as improve people conditions. Teamwork
improves the way of working which reduces the extra time that taken by an individual member.
In the last journal of Walter and et.al., 2019, it is analysed that teamwork is necessary in
family meetings as at that time people are engaged for a particular or common reason. Due to
this, it becomes very necessary for every individual that they should coordinate with each other
so that they will come at common point. It is actually related to the collaborative working
conditions in which people are ready to work with other people by understanding their culture as
well as their traditions. It is very obvious that every person is not accepting other people
viewpoint and that's why they need to understanding the importance of teamwork. A meeting can
be become successful only because of effective teamwork. The attitude as well as the behaviour
of team members decide the result of team. If it is found that they are ready to interact with each
other due to their attitude. This will leads to ineffective team. So it is necessary for a family
meeting that they should understand the importance of teamwork.
After discussing all the journals, it is analysed that team is not wastage of time, energy
and money. This can be said on the basis of discussion of all journals in which every journal
states that teamwork is necessary in every field. It helps in achievement of goals and objectives.
This is not wrong that it takes time, money and efforts for creation of effective team. But it is
incomplete truth as if organisation is able to lead and manage effective team then they can easily
achieve their desired results. Teamwork is not just helping in achievement of goals but also very

useful in reducing hurdles as every person is ready to support to other one which increase their
morale. It is really helpful in mitigating all the burnouts.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded from the above discussion that teamwork is necessity of organisations as
well in other sectors. It is found that day by day the complexities and dynamic nature of business
environment are increasing. It create problems for people that how they will manage all the task
by individually. It is analysed that team work is not wastage of time, money and efforts or
energy. It takes time to build an effective team but after that organisation would not worry about
the problems as team becomes able to manage with all the upcoming challenges. It is necessary
for every sector that they should understand the different of ineffective and effective teamwork.
For that purpose, they should use important theories and models that helps employees to
motivate towards teamwork. It will results in achievement of goals and objectives.

REFERENCES:
Books and Journals:
Cotton, S.A., Roche, C.E. and Malhotra, A., 2020. Proning during COVID-19: the Importance of
Teamwork. American Journal of Critical Care, 29(6), pp.418-418.
Galleta-Williams, H., and et.al, 2020. The importance of teamwork climate for preventing
burnout in UK general practices. European journal of public health, 30(Supplement_4),
pp.iv36-iv38.
Nowaskie, D., and et.al., 2020. Care coordinator assistants: Job satisfaction and the importance
of teamwork in delivering person-centered dementia care. Dementia, 19(5), pp.1560-
1572.
Ogbonnaya, C., Tillman, C.J. and Gonzalez, K., 2018. Perceived organizational support in health
care: The importance of teamwork and training for employee well-being and patient
satisfaction. Group & Organization Management, 43(3), pp.475-503.
Tripathy, M., 2018. Building quality teamwork to achieve excellence in business
organizations. International research journal of management, IT and social
sciences, 5(3), pp.1-7.
Walter, J.K., and et.al., 2019. Teamwork when conducting family meetings: concepts,
terminology, and the importance of Team-Team practices. Journal of pain and symptom
management, 58(2), pp.336-343.
Welp, A., and et.al., 2018. The importance of reflecting on practice: How personal professional
development activities affect perceived teamwork and performance. Journal of clinical
nursing, 27(21-22), pp.3988-3999.
Online
5 Important Reasons Why Teamwork Matters!, 2017. [Online] Available through:
<https://www.potential.com/articles/5-important-reasons-why-teamwork-matters/>