Impact of Teamwork on Organizational Performance

Impact of Teamwork on Organizational Performance

Thesis Statement

“The outcomes of teamwork have strong effects on organizational performance both in negative and positive terms”.

Introduction

A team is group of people formally constructed to interact at a high level. These people intensely work together in order to achieve their common goal. When the team is effective, they enable the team members with their experience to achieve the targets that were unable to achieve by people working individually or in other forms of group. Team is appropriate for carrying out the activities that are complex and it contains several interdependent activities. A group contains two or more people who have interactions with each other for achieving a specific goal or to meet a particular need (Delarue, et al., 2003). A group does not necessarily develop a team in itself. Team has members who generate synergies with the help of coordination and who have complementary skills. The coordination between team members allow everyone to maximize his/her strengths and overcome the weaknesses. It has been observed that the concept of teamwork is the widely used metaphors in organizational life (Eurofound, 2007). In this paper, we will study the effects of teamwork on organizational performance. This paper will study the degree of relationship between teamwork and organizational performance with respect to negative and positive relationships.

Discussion

The impact of teamwork on the performance of organizations has been a topic of several studies conducted by practitioners and academics for previous years. One of the possible reasons of this interest can be the wider belief that the teamwork has strong influence on the overall performance of the organization. The construction of a team is taken as significant by a large number of researchers for the achievement of organizational objectives and goals and for inducing the performances between subordinates (West, 2012). According to several reasons, it is believed that there is a string relationship between teamwork and organizational performance. These positive and negative reasons are discussed below:

Positive Effects of Teamwork on Organizational Performance

Team Behavior and Performance Improvements

According to the studies of several scholars and practitioners it has been suggested that effective behavior of team has the ability to facilitate the performance improvements while the organization comes across several new challenges. As per their analysis, it is important to understand the impact of teamwork on the overall performances since teamwork is considered as the key driving force for the improvement of organizational performances. Teams work brings in dramatic outcomes and has tremendous effects of organizational performance. On one hand, the teamwork, if works effectively, can help the organization to achieve the incredible outcomes with the exceeding team output far from the individual talents of each member of the team. On the other hand, if the team does not work effectively in coordination, it can lead to unnecessary disruptions, failure in delivery and strategic losses (Delarue, et al., 2003).

As per the analysis of several studies, it has been suggested that organizational should realize their strategic objectives that are addressed ...