Lesson 2 Discussion
Primary Post Assignment: Team Performance, Productivity and Rewording Teamwork (20 Points):
Module 2 focuses on performance, productivity, and rewarding teamwork. Based on your understanding, discuss the following.
How to achieve team productivity:
What conditions need to be in place for teams to excel and why?
Suggest ways to design teamwork so that threats to performance are minimized.
As a manager, how would you reward teamwork?
Response Post Instructions (10 Points):
Support your work with specific citations from this week’s learning resources and other sources.
Read at least two of your colleagues’ postings.
Respond to one of those posts in one of the following ways: See posting/discussion requirements.
Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, evidence or research.
Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
Make suggestions based on additional evidence drawn from readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
Attached are the posts that we need to respond
Main Post should be 350 words
And each response should be 150 words(300 Total for 2 responses)
Thanks
Hello Class,
The team leaders and team member collaboration and communication is the key to the success of the project. Hence, the organizations must ensure that there is an open communication system and where the information is passed and discussed in detail between the team members. We can see how every group will have a certain number of members where everyone has a unique personality and ideology and maintaining peace and communications without any misunderstandings is a quite challenging task for the company. Hence, for the teams to reach the expectations of the company and excel in the tasks assigned to them the organization needs to have certain conditions in place like having specific deadlines to accomplish the tasks given to them (Al-Rawi, 2008).
Also, one must ensure that punctuality is maintained in the office. The conditions like every employee must be reporting their day to day tasks in a timely manner to their respective managers, etc should be in place to ensure that the employees are not lazy and are being productive. Also, the office environment greatly influences the employee’s productivity like any misunderstandings between the employees, showing partiality, not giving respect to the employees, or not attending to their problems, and not providing safe working environments are all some issues that will affect the productivity of the employees (Al-Rawi, 2008).
Hence, the organization must design certain company policies and ensure that everyone follows those policies. This will create a sense that everybody is treated equally, and no partiality exists in the company. A clear promotional policy will also clear all misunderstandings if any in the team and overall, in the organization. As a manager, it is the responsibility to ensure that the performance of the team members is not disappointing. Hence, to boost the employees and encourage them to perform well I will always give them the freedom to make their decisions and think creatively. I will also reward such employees with promotions and encourage them to be more productive. Here, to enhance the efficiency of the teams and the teamwork I will reward them suitably. The rewards like if any team successfully completes the projects within the stipulated time and budget and also efficiently utilized the resources then I will openly announce the team’s efforts and their achievement to all the employees and also reward them suitably that will encourage them to continue in the same way and also it motivates the other teams to perform in a better way (Manzoor, Ullah, Hussain & Ahmad, 2011).
References
Manzoor, S. R., Ullah, H., Hussain, M., & Ahmad, Z. M. (2011). Effect of teamwork on employee performance.International Journal of Learning and Development,1(1), 110-126.
Al-Rawi, K. (2008). Cohesiveness within teamwork: the relationship to performance effectivenesscase study.Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues,1(2), 92-106.
Thanks. Team Productivity
Productivity is the quality activity output compared to the business inputs. It also involves raising employees’ satisfaction and providing them with the essential gear to ensure efficiency in their tasks. Corporates make substantial funds to ensure that their teams are productive (Shuffler et al., 2018). To ensure team productivity, organizations should acquire a sense of ownership. Leaving teams to make decisions on their own and account for their work is what that entails ownership. Setting communication anticipations also helps in team productivity. Communication is essential since the team members understand their roles with ease. With effective communication, teams also share ideas, contributing to the growth of the corporate. Analyzing the teams’ weaknesses and strengths is also crucial in ensuring productive teams in the business.
Team productivity calls for the provision of well-trained coaches (Shuffler et al., 2018). Teams with well-trained coaches are more productive compared to the sides with less trained coaches. Also, team members must have a common goal. When identifying groups in businesses, it is essential to ensure that they are all committed to a common goal in the company. Working with people having diverse targets in the same team is challenging and hinders team productivity. Reliability is another requirement for excellent team performance. Teams with unreliable mates do not work suitably.
Designing teamwork starts with the correct leadership strategy. Supervisors, for example, are vital in individual employee performance, but in partnership, supervisors are not necessary. It is important to select team leaders instead, to take up the role of a supervisor in their specific teams. Under no supervision, the team has a sense of ownership and will, therefore, work productively, leading to productivity. Flexibility is another fundamental approach to designing teamwork. According to Nielsen et al. (2020), employees are productive when challenged and given new learning opportunities, thus developing new skills of work. Also, meeting employees’ needs to ensure team productivity. Teams tend to work better in environments that meet all their needs and where there is a fulfilling environment.
Most organizations often ignore rewarding teamwork, but it serves a key role in future productivity. Rewarded members are motivated to work better in their next projects. When rewarding partnership as a manager, I should repay the whole team and not a specific individual. Also, I should provide new learning opportunities to the team members, show trust, and have distance fun with the members. I should also review the achievements and shortcomings together with the team and listen to any difficulties encountered by the team for future refinements.
References
Nielsen, J. D., Thompson, J. A., Wadsworth, L. L., & Vallett, J. D. (2020). The moderating role of calling in the workfamily interface: Buffering and substitution effects on satisfaction. Journal of Organizational Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2469
Shuffler, M. L., Diazgranados, D., Maynard, M. T., & Salas, E. (2018). Developing, sustaining, and maximizing team effectiveness: An integrative, dynamic perspective of team development interventions. Academy of Management Annals, 12(2), 688-724. https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2016.0045
