Constructing Efficient Teams: A Strategic Approach

STEPS IN BUILDING AN EFFECTIVE TEAM

• Recognise the teamwork power : As the individuals have unique skills and have different style of doing work one should take a moment to appreciate the teamwork. Considering the result of the tasks which is required to achieve and complement each individual’s contribution in achieving it. The successful team project maximizes the member’s talents and empower the teamwork ability which comes from the group’s cohesion which is focused on a common goal.

• Choose the right people : The team will be effective when we get the right people for the right job. Organizations try to incorporate employees in the organisation that bring varied experience and perspective to the work. Try to choose

The team performance must be sampled with the variables and contexts over time.

CHALLENGES OF TEAM PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

A. Measuring /evaluating dimensions this is usually the difficult part of performance management .the dimensions shows a level of discussion to all.as people are not comfortable in discussing the given feedback on behaviours as they are more subjective in nature and are less quantifiable so they prefer to avoid this area.to evaluate it requires collecting performance data and the accuracy depends on the data collected.

B. Keeping leaders focused: The person who is evaluating and the person who is being evaluated should set the standards and determine the data collected to measure performance. This is as difficult as it seems as the leader and individual being evaluated will make a subjective judgment from the data.

C. Linking job descriptions to performance management: linking the job descriptions to individual performance plans can have many implications on performance.in performance management system the plans obtained will maintain the present view of the expectation and accountabilities for an individual or a team.so to keep them linked maintaining the job description is important in the

The support motivates the members to work harder and get confidence which they might be lacking on their own.

DISADVANTAGES OF TEAM BASED STRUCTURE PERFORMANCE

• Size of teams : Keeping team small is a key to improving group effectiveness. The most effective team must include five to nine members. Managers often tend to make error by forming large groups.

• Conflict levels : Conflict on a team is not necessarily said bad.it has a complex relationship with team performance.it is based on tension, interpersonal compatibilities and other dysfunctional. Tension in the team meetings is necessarily get the best ideas in the session. The personal conflicts create rifts in the team which minimizes the objectives of work group.

• Social Loafing : The individuals engage in social loafing in the group because their particular can’t be identified as they are average workers. Effective teams undermine this tendency by making all the members in the team individually accountable for the goal and