Team Autonomy

In today’s competitive business organizations the nature of work has been shifted to use of teams as fundamentals. The shift in the use of teams in business organizations has given birth to study of several fundamental concepts to improve team’s performance more effectively. In the end the main aim of the business organizations is to make profit and grow larger. In order to achieve this, the business organizations has to understand which factors are to be given more importance. These factors include fundamentals of the work processes such as resources, power and workforce. Workforce or team individuals are the one of the unique fundamental requirement which are needed to transform the resources into final outputs. These workforces work in teams

The autonomy is one such behaviour of team which is the key characteristics of work team. The autonomy is characterized by motivation, mastery, and purpose. Combination of these three characters constitutes autonomy.
Motivation “is the satisfaction of an individual derives from doing an activity”. There are two components in motivation, they are intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. The intrinsic motivation is the inherent satisfaction an individual derives from doing an activity. These inherent satisfaction can be seen as team behaviour, which is related to intrinsic motivation. The intrinsic motivations observed in a team are feedback, and another factor affecting the motivations is the meaningfulness in

The other one is the meaningful work culture. As the sentence itself suggests that the work culture should be meaningful and the member of the team must also feel the same. A member can do so if the work is matching with the skills he possess, the task identity, and the team task significance. If all three or any one of the above is satisfied to the team member, then the team member feel meaning in his work, which will motivate the individual members to perform better.
The extrinsic motivations people are motivated by the factors such as rewards, status, also punishments etc. when a member is said to be rewarded if he performs well. Also this may induce the individual as well team to perform well, this motivation may cause better workability of the team member. As a human tendency every person wants to achieve high status. He pushes into it if he gets a chance to achieve it.
In a team if the individual knows that he will be promoted to higher level in hierarchy which is a matter of status, he performs well, which is an internal motivational factor. Which is a psychological