Team Effectiveness and Team Building in Project Management at Tesco

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THE ROLE OF TEAM EFFECTIVENESS AND
TEAM BUILDING IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT

TABLE OF
CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• COMPANY BACKGROUND
• TEAM EFFECTIVENESS AND TEAM BUILDING IN TESCO
• PROJECT MANAGEMENT AT TESCO
• ROLE OF TEAM EFFECTIVENESS AND TEAM BUILDING IN TESCO
• THEORIES FOR TEAM BUILDING
• THEORIES FOR TEAM EFFECTIVENESS
• IMPORTANCE OF TEAM BUILDING AND TEAM EFFECTIVENESS
AT TESCO
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
• The current scenario needs suitable approaches for team
working in organisations
• Team building and team effectiveness can easily support
in delivering the market needs and eventually attain the
business objectives
• So, in order to understand this, the presentation slides
will be going to include the role of same with the
example of Tesco Plc.

COMPANY
BACKGROUND
• Tesco is the retail giant started the business in 1919, a
century ago
• The company is a global name now and has achieved all
the goals and objectives and hence is working on
business sustainability
• The company has task force of more than 400,000
employees working in teams for its goals

TEAM EFFECTIVENESS AND
TEAM BUILDING IN TESCO
• Since, the organisation consists of a very large employee
base and hence the role of team building and team
effectiveness is vital in order to attain the objectives and
hence the management satisfactorily utilises the
processes to make things better
• The team building activities at Tesco comprises of several
techniques with the help of models and theories for team
management and motivation to employees in any instance
or a particular project management

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
AT TESCO
• Being a popular global brand, the company needs to
dynamically work on several tasks and hence they makes
a defined task force or a project management team to
handle that at its different operating sites.
• The project management at Tesco operates on different
areas from procurement of raw materials to its
production, marketing and sales functions.

ROLE OF TEAM
EFFECTIVENESS AND
TEAM BUILDING IN TESCO
• In any organisation, team building for team effectiveness
is necessary and hence for Tesco.
• With the help of effective team building, the company is
able to attain its high success and sales rate even in this
competitive market scenarios
• In addition to this, the roles for Tesco can be understood
in its operating sites which are working hard to make the
best possible results for the whole group.

THEORIES FOR TEAM
BUILDING
• According to Bruce Tuckman (1965), the team building
should be done in 4 phases which is also followed by
Tesco is mentioned below:
• Forming
• Storming
• Norming
• Adjourning

THEORIES FOR TEAM
EFFECTIVENESS
• According to Belbin
team roles, the teams
should be based on some
necessary roles which
can help in managing all
the tasks and hence can
be suitable for all project
management teams in
Tesco
• The different roles at
Tesco in accordance to
Belbin are mentioned

IMPORTANCE OF TEAM
BUILDING AND TEAM
EFFECTIVENESS AT TESCO
• Team building helps in personal as well as professional
development of the individuals in teams and hence this
enhances the profitability of the firm from small levels
• This is also important for firms like Tesco as they are the
leaders and they need to deal with even small concerns
that can affect their productivity and hence team building
and effectiveness of teams is crucial

CONCLUSION
• Overall it can be concluded that the role of team building
and team effectiveness can be vital for final results for
any organisation and in terms of Tesco, the use of them
makes it successful in globe
• In addition to this, it can be said that, Tesco should work
more on its every project management teams so as to
attain high results every time with the additional support
of motivation, dedication and loyalty enhancement
practices to employees

REFERENCES
• Dyer Jr, W.G., 2015. Team building. Wiley Encyclopedia of
Management, pp.1-2.
• Dyer, W.G. and Dyer, J.H., 2013. Team building: Proven
strategies for improving team performance. John Wiley & Sons.
• Stone, K.B., 2010. Kaizen teams: Integrated HRD practices for
successful team building. Advances in developing human
resources, 12(1), pp.61-77.
• Tuckman, B.W. and Jensen, M.A.C., 2010. Stages of small-
group development revisited. Group Facilitation: A Research &
Applications Journal, 10, pp.43-48.
• Belbin, R.M., 2012. Team roles at work. Routledge.