Management and Leadership

Executive Summary

The paper describes how to enhance teamwork, including how teams develop their collective efficacy over time when groups join together with similar goals and objectives, interacting and influencing each other. The paper also describes the main idea of team playing and team building and on the other hands it also describes the basic idea behind making a team. It also describes the management views upon team building. In teamwork objectives are shared; tasks are clearly defined, but at the same time are adaptive according to each situation; tasks where leadership are also shared

Contents

Introduction4

Discussion4

What is Teamwork?5

How to Improve Teamwork?5

Self and Collective Efficacy6

The Assent of Team Working8

How to Enhance Teamwork8

Conclusion8



Management and Leadership - Team Playing

Introduction

Gradually, teams have become the basis of the 21st century workplace. The thought process behind the idea of team playing and building is to attain synergy. Companies and leaders in today's business world are evaluated on the basis of managing teams. According the contrary literature, efficient use of teams can provide overall effectiveness of the group and organization.

Discussion

According to a Japanese writer Ryunosuke Satoro “individually we are one drop, and together we are an ocean” (Watson, 2013). The metaphor ideally describes in a simple and practical manner that by working together or by working in a team we can achieve far better and much more than we can stand alone to achieve it. Team work has now become an integral part of the corporate world and the implementation of this sentiment prevails in the modern world. The companies are no longer interested in sticking to the hierarchical system, which is now considered to be out fashioned. They managers and administrators have realised that the staff and the output during working hours is more productive when people work in team. Team work improves innovation, boosts the moral, confidence and will to work, increases productivity and increases the problem solving strategies (Watson, 2013).

The Development of team is consisting of various stages. On the other hand, this procedure is not always simple, and teams might experience numerous stages at the same time or may revert to prior stages. The efforts of Team building that are conducted by a third party can help teams in acquiring the skills, knowledge, and abilities essential for efficient teamwork and achieving synergy, and to avoid pitfalls of team situations such as group thinking. Team building efforts generally focus on describing the roles of team members, problem solving, setting team goals, and interpersonal processes.

What is Teamwork?

Teamwork in simple terms can be defined as co-operative effort directed by group of people to achieve a common goal. Team work improves when the group of people working together change their attitudes and behaviour to improve the performance (West, 2012).

How to Improve Teamwork?

Teamwork can produce far much better results as compared to the similar efforts produced by an individual. Teams working on a common goal are generally more productive and the level of work they produce is generally more valuable and initiates new ...