Team Effectiveness Model

According to Organizational behavior: Emerging knowledge, global reality, by Steven McShane and Mary AnnVon Glinow (2015), “teams are groups of two or more people who interact and influence one another, are mutually accountable for achieving common goals associated with organizational objectives, perceive themselves as a social entity within an organization (McShane & Von Gilnow, 2015, p. 220). Team engulfs a variety of entity from basketball players attempting to score and win the game, to employees in an organization working on a project to meet deadlines. Being involved in a team help enhances such skills as decision making, task interdependence, conflict, as it promotes brainstorming, innovation, creativity and learning. While exploring

According to Steven McShane and Mary Ann Von Gilnow (2015), “An effective team is one that benefits the organization, its members, and survives long enough to accomplish its mandate (McShane & Von Gilnow, 2015, p. 225).” In an essence to achieve a goal that has a productive output for the good of the organization and at the same time the team members are satisfied, surviving the completed task, and are ready to take another project if needed. To evaluate a team’s effectiveness, a team effectiveness model can be used. This model helps with evaluating all conditions outside the environment that influences its effectiveness according to Steven McShane and Mary Ann Von Gilnow (2015). The team effectiveness model evaluates the organizational and team environment, by using team based rewards, communication, organizational structure, organizational leadership and physical space. Team design, by means of task characteristics, team size and team composition to produce a team process. In the team processes the team development, norms, cohesion, and trust are formed. This produces the final result of team effectiveness, the feeling that the team as accomplished the tasks, the members are satisfied, and the team has maintained survival and ready to take on another