In today’s society, it may be necessary for individuals to be able to effectively form work teams within the workplace, in order to increase organizational performance. This paper will discuss two contextual factors of work teams and two components of a successful work team’s composition.
Introduction
People often confused the term work group with the term work team. Although they have a number of similarities, they are still somewhat very different from one another. According to Judge & Robbins (2011) a work team is defined as “A group whose individual efforts result in performance that is greater than the sum of the individual inputs” (p.315). Whereas a work group is two or more people whose goal is to work together by sharing information …show more content…
A work team must be structure with effective leadership to ensure that the work team stay on track and reach the team’s goal of increasing the organization overall performance. The leaders of the work team must have effective leadership skills that should include the ability to direct, delegate and empower its members to do their very best. In order to empower and to encourage cohesion among fellow work team members, leaders can share leadership roles (such as co-leading) with other work team members. Work team members who feel respected and valued may be motivated to do a better job, thus increasing the organization’s performance. Judge & Robbins (2011) note that “teams that establish shared leadership by effectively delegating it are more effective than teams with a traditional single-leader structure” …show more content…
The level of conscientious and the degree that the work team member is willing to open up can have an impact on their performance and how they get along with other work team members. According to Judge & Robbins (2011) “Specifically, teams that rate higher on mean levels of conscientiousness and openness to experience tend to perform better, and the minimum level of team member agreeableness also matters: teams did worse when they had one or more highly disagreeable members” (p.323). It seems that work team members who value and respect the opinions of fellow work team members may be more willing to work with each other in teams in effort to increase an organization’s
Introduction
People often confused the term work group with the term work team. Although they have a number of similarities, they are still somewhat very different from one another. According to Judge & Robbins (2011) a work team is defined as “A group whose individual efforts result in performance that is greater than the sum of the individual inputs” (p.315). Whereas a work group is two or more people whose goal is to work together by sharing information …show more content…
A work team must be structure with effective leadership to ensure that the work team stay on track and reach the team’s goal of increasing the organization overall performance. The leaders of the work team must have effective leadership skills that should include the ability to direct, delegate and empower its members to do their very best. In order to empower and to encourage cohesion among fellow work team members, leaders can share leadership roles (such as co-leading) with other work team members. Work team members who feel respected and valued may be motivated to do a better job, thus increasing the organization’s performance. Judge & Robbins (2011) note that “teams that establish shared leadership by effectively delegating it are more effective than teams with a traditional single-leader structure” …show more content…
The level of conscientious and the degree that the work team member is willing to open up can have an impact on their performance and how they get along with other work team members. According to Judge & Robbins (2011) “Specifically, teams that rate higher on mean levels of conscientiousness and openness to experience tend to perform better, and the minimum level of team member agreeableness also matters: teams did worse when they had one or more highly disagreeable members” (p.323). It seems that work team members who value and respect the opinions of fellow work team members may be more willing to work with each other in teams in effort to increase an organization’s