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.
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Structural factors include team or group type, size, and
composition of skills and abilities.
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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:
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Teams are proliferating in business organization
because of their ability to achieve quality results quickly and effectively.
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The team is ready to push to "get the job
done,” and provide excellence in work in the client organization.
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It achieves towards goals of an organization
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It provides an opportunity to share leadership
qualities among the team members in a team
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It involved in effective decision making process in
an organization
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Building Team Effectiveness engages team members in
a focused discussion about their work as a team and how the team achieves
success.
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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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