Monday, May 27, 2013

TEAM EFFECTIVENESS

TEAM EFFECTIVENESS

INTRODUCTION

Team effectiveness is the selection of the right skill person  for the right job in an organization. It brings together different skills person in  team to achieve particular mission. It influences  the right mix of skills of persons like as technical skills and conceptual skills and communication skills, team effectiveness is directly linked with  motivation, The ability to solve conflicts without compromising the quality of the project. Several factors within an organization itself influence team effectiveness, including its organizational culture, level of autonomy, and types of feedback mechanisms. But the factors that influence the effectiveness of a team most directly stem from its internal structure and processes.
·         Structural factors include team or group type, size, and composition of skills and abilities.
·         Team processes include stages of team development, cultural norms, roles cohesiveness, and interpersonal processes such as trust development, facilitation, influence, leadership communication, and conflict resolution.

Team effectiveness based on the performance of the team and its members on task and objectives of an organization:

·         Teams are proliferating in business organization because of their ability to achieve quality results quickly and effectively.

·         The team is ready to push to "get the job done,” and provide excellence in work in the client organization.

·         It achieves towards goals of an organization

·         It provides an opportunity to share leadership qualities among the team members in a team

·         It involved in effective decision making process in an organization

·         Building Team Effectiveness engages team members in a focused discussion about their work as a team and how the team achieves success.

·         It is gaining clarity and commitment regarding the team's purpose, partnership, and productivity yields better team relationship

Performance outcomes may be measured by products made, ideas generated, customers served, numbers of defects per thousand items produced, overtime hours, items sold, and customer satisfaction levels. Personal outcomes may be measured by employee satisfaction, commitment, and willingness of members to stay on the team. Both outcomes are important for the long-term viability as well as the short-term success of the team.

PERFORMANCE NEEDS

Performance and needs are very important to determine the team effectiveness in an organization: The following lists the characteristics that comprise high-performance teams:

v  To build commitment to a member of the team’s purpose and partnership by reviewing issues critical to their development in an organization.

v  To develop guidelines for team productivity by addressing norms for decision making and limits of authority in the team.

v  To create a collective vision of what your team can become in the next year.

v  To build an action plan to move them toward sustained team effectiveness.

v  The team has a common focus, including clear and understandable goals, plans, activities, and ways to measure success.
v  Roles and responsibilities are clearly defined for each team member.
v  Each member has clearly defined expectations of other members.
v  The team fully utilizes its resources—both internal and external.
v  Members value each other's differences in healthy and productive ways.
v  Each member is able to give, receive, and elicit necessary feedback.
v  The team members manage their meetings in a productive way.
v  The team is able to reach goals by achieving the necessary results.

APPLICATION

Team application is very important and significant towards the team effectiveness in an organization as listed below:

v  Team members must "get on the application i.e. relating a project” regarding areas critical to performance

v  Teams must revisit their missions and their role to ensure continued high performance in an organization.

v  New teams can avoid the usual confusion of a "team start-up," enabling them to solidify more quickly into a focused and unified work group.

FACILITATION

Facilitation is one of the major keys and signed towards the team and its effectiveness in an organization:

v  Team leaders are in a tough spot. Most are managers who have been given new roles as their departments have evolved into functional and cross-functional teams. Team and its members are facility to achieve to planned performance in an organization.

v  Through practice and feedback, team leaders must learn the skills they need to effectively maximize a team's energy, thinking, and resources. This helps empower teams as they meet to move forward on issues, solve problems, and make decisions.


Work groups are a playing a significant and very important role within today’s business world. Work can be restructured around all types groups and groups are needed for all kinds of organizations. Managers can be understood the needs of the groups and its behavior concept in an organization in order to appreciate what groups can and cannot do within organizations and how groups function within and outside of an organization. Any one member in the group can influence the behavior of the individuals in the group and teamwork in an organization. We will examine some basic characteristics of groups including the types of work groups, the development of Informal groups, and the manner in which groups operate in the business world.

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