The Important of Work Team Today

The importance of work teams in today’s organisation.

1. Group and work teams:

• The definition of group: is a collection of individuals who have regular contact and frequent interaction, mutual influence, common feeling of camaraderie, and who work together to achieve a common set of goals. Additionally, all work teams are working as group, but not all groups are working like work teams. However, the groups are working individually in the business aspects to achieve a common goal or interest of business has been set when the group has been formed. For example, a small business may have a client services group, but one person may focus on local clients, one person may focus on regional clients and a third person may assist those individuals. Also, groups tend to be permanent fixtures with ongoing goals or responsibilities.
• The definition of work teams: is a group of employees that works semi autonomously on recurring tasks. Work teams are most effective and useful where work teams make valuable contributions to the organisation and are important to the satisfaction of members. For instance, before a small business creates a new product, it may organize a team composed of people from all departments – engineering, finance, legal, marketing, etc. – to consider all aspects of the potential new product to avoid costly surprises down the road. With a team, individuals recognize the expertise and talents of others needed to achieve the team’s goal. Additionally, teams are often formed for temporary assignments with one specific goal, focus or outcome in mind.

1. Why work teams:

• The organisations have the most significant contributions by the teams when the member can put aside all the individual interests in favour of unity.
• The work team is also improved morale, greater flexibility and increase innovation.
• The work team can be benefited to an individual of the team as skills development, knowing more about you, and also increased productivity and performance.

1. Group behaviour:

• Norms of behaviour has been using as the standard that uses to evaluate the behaviour of its members. Additionally, the norm has been subdivided into different norms such as: performance norms, appearance norms, social agreement norms and resource allocation norms.
• Group cohesion has been defined as cohesion can be more specifically defined as the tendency for a group to be in unity while working towards a goal or to satisfy the emotional needs of its members. This definition includes important aspects of cohesiveness, including its multidimensionality, dynamic nature, instrumental basis, and emotional dimension.
• Social loafing refers to the tendency of individuals to put in less effort when working in a group context. However, this might be created a real drag on the group’s efforts and achievement.
• Loss of individuality has been discussed as a social process through which group members lose self-awareness and its accompanying senses of accountability, inhibition, and responsibility for individual behaviour.

Reference:

Buchanan, D.A and Huczynski, A.A (2014) Organisational Behaviour, Be, Pearson Education Limited.

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