Team Work

Team Work Emphasis (Analysis)

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Team Work Emphasis (Analysis)

“Why do many managers prefer that their employees work in teams?

Does this necessarily deliver the workplace outcomes that these managers envisage?”

Introduction

The work done by several associates in which each of them was made responsible for doing his or her own assigned task along with all subordinating personal importance to the efficiency of the entire job is known as Teamwork. It have been observed that these days managers in all most all the organizations prefer that their employees should work in a team as the combined effect of two or more people is more than one person, this effect is commonly known as 'synergy' in a typical language of management. Working in a team can help in managing huge amount of work or extensive tasks in an effective way as every individual holds some unique capability that can contribute in a positive way towards achieving the end results.

Importance of teamwork cannot be denied by anyone as due to the complex business environment things are getting more complicated and it cannot be managed by any single individual. Managers always want their subordinates to work in a team as in their view they can make better products, services or decisions in teams rather than individually. Basically, there are six components that can be used for analysing the teamwork; those six components are coordination, communication, mutual support, cohesion, effort and balance in contribution from each member. The quality of team can also be analysed by using the correlation through tram performance in the areas of efficiency and effectiveness. According to the meta-analysis in 2008, it was found that there is a strong relationship among team effectiveness and team work.

Discussion

“Ezzamel, Mahmoud, and Hugh Willmott (1998). Accounting for Teamwork: a Critical Study of Group-Based Systems of Organizational Control. Administrative Science Quarterly Vol.43 (2): pp.358-396.”

According to the Article “Accounting for Teamwork: a Critical Study of Group-Based Systems of Organizational Control” by Ezzamel et.al in 1998, it was found that the teamwork can have far better effects on the organization than working individually. Organizations can achieve greater output in terms of productivity, profitability etc. if they are focusing on group based systems that encourages team work in the organizational processes. This article was a critical study in which the authors have reviewed the effects of teamwork and identified that why managers enforce team working spirit among their subordinates. This was mainly to achieve synergy and group cohesion. Those groups which are cohesive can attain even the most difficult task at ease as they have mutual understanding and supporting spirit among them. The main thing is this that a manager can only become a manager in true sense if he or she is able to inculcate team work spirit in his or her subordinates otherwise he would just be known as an employee and noting else. Manager can help his or her subordinates in forming good relations among them by motivating them and highlighting or reminding them ...