Changed
work activity & structure in business:
The business world is facing a revolutionary change. The
completion is rising day by day. Firms are in an intense competition for the
achievement of the major market share to increase their profitability. For
generating high income from the investment, organizations are paying more
attention on the strategic operations of the business activities. For the
strategic operation, the organization needs the maximum performance of
organizational workforce. For that reason to ensure the better performance of
the employees within the organization different strategic options are being
followed. One of them is teamwork. For the better combination of the workforce,
the organizational hierarchy is being flattened day by day for ensuring the
better communication to generate the highest level of team efforts. Not only that
but also in case of greater global extension, the organizations is facing the
interactions with different culture & society which works as the reason for
the changing form of business operation to response the environment. On the
business environment, the technology has enhanced the extended opportunity and
threat for business. The technology has enabled the business organization to
perform their operation effectively and efficiently to achieve their desired
goals and objectives. On the other hand, it has accelerated the competition
which made the challenges for the organization to sustain in the competition
(Davis, 2009).
Element-1
Group:
Group is the collection of three or more people who are
in the purpose to achieve a common set of goals thorough regular contact and frequent interaction, mutual influence, common
feeling of camaraderie.
Theory of group:
In the group, the people come to have the common
objectives to share the ideas, philosophy & common areas of knowledge to
achieve the set of common goals. Here, all the members gaiters regularly or
frequently for functioning jointly with protecting the personal identity.
Types of group:
Formal group: Formal group is the
group which is made for the accomplishment of a specific type of job or task
within an organization. Group for launching a particular product within the
market is the example.
Informal group: The group which is not made for a formal organization and formed with
informal people for helping themselves in achieving mutual objectives.
Primary group: The primary group is
the collection of the small cluster of people to meet regularly. The family is
an example of primary group where the members meet regularly.
Secondary group: The group which will be formed with a large number of people will be
called as the secondary group. The example of secondary group is the social
gathering.
Team:
In a team there are a group of people who are arranged to
achieve the common purpose. In case of team, the tasks for what a group of
people gathers are highly interdependent and complex. In this task there are
different subtasks to accomplish the major task. These different subtasks are
imposed on different members of the team (Forsyth, 2006).
Theory
of team:
Teams
normally have members with complementary skills and generate synergy through a
coordinated effort which allows each member to maximize his/her strengths and
minimize his/her weaknesses (Forsyth, 2006).
Types
of team:
Task team:
To resolve a clearly defined task, goals & problem,
the task team is formulated by the organization or the entity. Here, the common
purpose of the members will be to task/goals or problem. The work of the
members will be interdependent to attain the task.
Cross-functional team: In the
cross-functional team, there are several members from different levels of the
organization with different capacity. But their effort will centre on the
common goal achievement.
Virtual team: Virtual team is the team where the members of the team
are not gathered physically but through technologically to achieve specific
gals with the help of combined efforts of the persons
(Ale Ebrahim, Ahmed, Taha, 2009).
Self-managing team: Self-managing team is the team where
there will be different team members with the complete or partial
responsibility for their tasks performed.
Difference
between team and group
Team
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Group
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Team is formed to achieve the
pre-organized common purpose with the combined effort. For the accomplishment
of the team objective collaborative efforts must be required.
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Group is the combination of the
three more people to have a set of common purpose where the collaborative
effort is not necessarily required.
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In the team, the whole team is
responsible for the failure and success of the efforts jointly.
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In the group, the whole group is
responsible for the failure and success of the efforts individually.
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The outcomes of the operation are
shared among the members.
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The outcomes of the operation are
not shared among the members.
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The members of the team are highly
motivated to co-operate the other members as their personal performance is
fully dependent on the joint efforts.
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The members of the team not are
highly motivated to co-operate the other members as their personal
performance is not dependent on the joint efforts.
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A team leader is highly successful
than any group leader as the team leader has the full control over the
members.
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A group leader is not successful
like a team leader as the group leader has not the full control over the
members.
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My project
whether team or group:
The project where I am involved in is to increase the
sales of the store where I work. In this
project, there are ten members. All the members of the project are in
performing the specific objectives. To co-ordinate the skills & efforts of
other members, I am the project manager or project leader. For that reason, I
can easily make comment that the collection of people which I lead is a team to
achieve a specific goal (Davis,
2009).
Justification
of the comment:
It is clear that the project which I lead, with no doubt,
a team. My arguments in support of my comment like following (Forsyth,
2006):
Ä The collection of the members to conduct the operations
of the project leaded by is formed to achieve the pre-organized & specific common
purpose top increase sales with the combined efforts from the all members.
Ä If the joint effort of the members of my team becomes
successful or failed, the responsibility will not touch a member individually.
The members of the project are not responsible personally to accomplish the
objective.
Ä The outcomes of the operation of my project are shared
among the members. On the other hand, the success failure will be distributed
among all the members and the whole team will be responsible for the failure
and success of the efforts jointly.
Ä The members of the project are highly motivated to
co-operate the other members as they know their personal performance is fully
dependent on the joint efforts.
Additionally, my project member works as the group of
people who are arranged to achieve the common purpose to increase the sales
within the store to prevent the sales fallowing as well as to sales increase.
In my project, the tasks are highly interdependent and complex to be performed (Davis,
2009).
From the above discussion, it is clear to us that the
members of the project work as the team not as the group.
Element-2
The relationships between members of the team: Relation is the extent in which
people interact with others for their personal interested goal achievement. In
team, the relation is that extent based on which the team members interact to
co-operate each other to achieve their personal or combined team objectives (Devine,
2002).
Relational
dimension within a team:
As the project manager as well as the team leader, I
require having the knowledge about the relational dimension within a team. I
will divide the relational dimension within three categories like following:
Positive relation: The positive
relational dimension among team members refers to that highly constructive,
co-operative & communicative relation within the team members to perform
their responsibilities to achieve the joint objective of the team. There are
three categories of positive relational dimensions like: Good relation, the
minimum normal and habitual constructive relationship within the members of the
team to perform their roles, better relation, and the more constructive trend
of the relationships among the team members (Devine, 2002).
Negative relation: The negative
relational dimension among team members refers to that destructive, non-co-operative
& less-communicative relation within the team members to perform their
responsibilities to achieve the joint objective of the team. There are three
categories of negative relational dimensions like: Bad relation, the minimum
normal and habitual negative relationship within the members of the team to
perform their roles, worse relation, the relationships with more destructive
trend among the team members (Wheelan,
2010).
Neutral relationship: In the team, the
neutral relation refers to the immoveable & unproductive relationship among
the members. But the neutral relationship doesn’t include any destructive and
constructive relationship. It shows that situation where no members of the team
actively go for co-operation or destruction. It refers just the resentment
which makes the goal achievement process of the team impossible.
Relational
dimension within my team:
My project team is consists of ten members in the
different position of my team. They have different roles with a particular
boundary. The success of the project for increasing sales is highly dependent
on the joint efforts of the members. For that reason as the team leader, I
always try to keep maximum extent of good relationship among the team members
to do their job. On the light of the discussion about my team, I can strongly
comment that the relationship which exists among the team members of my project
is HIGHLY POSITIVE or BEST RELATIONSHIP (Devine, 2002).
Success
factors of my project team:
In the current time, the performance report of the store
shows the high increase in sales volume is made. The active contribution for
that was made by my project team members to increase sales through ensuring
joint efforts. The successful joint effort was possible within my team for the
existence of the following success factors (Wheelan,
2010):
Clarity of communication: I as the project manager, try to ensure the best level of
clarity of communication as without the clear communication among the team
members, the joint effor for success cannot be made.
Clarity of goal: The project
introduced for what, what are the goals and objectives of the project are
clearly defined to the all members of the project team.
Clarity of roles: The project members
as the member of an integral team body have specified roles and duties to
perform.
Balanced participation: through the
maintenance of the better relationships, as the project manager, I have made a
highly communicative workforce for the project management which ensured the
balanced participations of the team members in the joint team effort.
Conflict
within team& reason for conflict:
When the different members of the team with significant
difference between needs, ideas, beliefs, values, or goals of them are in
struggle to have the same resources or the rights will be defined as the
conflict. The reasons for the conflict within the team is to fight for same
resources, difference of views regarding the same matter among several people,
limited opportunity for the team members (Lambert, Myers, 1999).
Conflict
incident in my team:
In my team,
there was a significant incident of conflict occurred few days ago. The source of the conflict was only photocopy
machine used by the two members of my project team. The fight was for the
position of the machine. (Lambert,
Myers, 1999).
At last I
made the negotiation for resolving the conflict. I called them both &
listened to them. After that I placed the machine in the middle between the two
desks of the team members.
I was very
much horrible as this conflict made them stopped to work & for that reason
in the total system, there were a bottleneck problem. The productivity of the
team drastically downed for that incident for few days (Lambert, Myers, 1999).
Element-3
Team
interaction with my project:
The interactions within a team follow a specified way of
flow. The flow of team interactions are basically in three types. These are
downward interaction where the flow of interaction flows from the top level to
lower level. Next is upward interaction where the interaction of the team flows
from the lower level to upper level. The
last one is the lateral interaction where the interaction flows in a flattened
structure (Wheelan, 2010).
In my team the
team interaction flow is designed in the way that the interactions flow within
a centralized stricture which can be referred as the lateral structure of
interactions. In my team, any members can interact with any members in every
stage that is required to be communicated to resolve the problem or making the
team effort successful to achieve project objective (Ale
Ebrahim, Ahmed, Taha, 2009).
Self
assessment:
As the leader of the project team, my interactions with
the other members of the team is must to combine the individual efforts of the
team to make the successful team effort. This will be determined with my
individual characteristics & the capacity to lead (Algert,
2006).
Now I will make an assessment to outline the success
& failure of me as the team leader. It will help me to make the
recommendations to improve my skills as the team leader.
My attitude toward the people who work in my team is
positive. I feel the member of my team always perfect to do the job which is
requires achieving the team objectives. My value toward the work is that well
established procedure should be followed accurately to achieve the project
objectives. I like to follow collaborating approach to work avoiding the
emphasizing on the personal gain. Sometimes I fail to communicate with the
members within a stressful situation.
Ability to work with other members is very high in a word.
As a team leader my team role is to co-ordinate the efforts of all the members
to make a fruitful team effort to achieve team objectives and the goals (Algert,
2006).
Based on the above findings, I will make further planning
for the development of the skills and capability of myself.
Theories related
to my understanding:
For the
successful team management to achieve the project or organizational objective
there is no alternative but efficient leadership on the project or organization
was the central understanding of the previous part. It is possible to dream the
successful outcome from the team efforts without proper leadership (Tuckman, 2002). The job design, team building and development of the
team members are the important factors for the successful leadership practices
(Adair, 1966).
With the capacity to collect people, the successful leadership will also
include the proper use, development & co-ordination of the skills of
remembers are require to achieve team objectives (Palmer, 1965). Clear objective & approaches accountability & successful
co-operations can make the better result in the team (Katzenbach & Smith, 1993). Goal orientation will be the most effective weapon for the goal
achievement (Lewin, 1948).
My
interaction with team members:
In the process of the interaction with team members,
three types of common interaction are available. First: the positive
interactions which enable the team leader to make constructive communication
and co-operation with the team members. Second: negative interaction which
recognize the leader oppressors to the team members to deal with them. At last:
the neutral interaction means the interactions which makes no influence over
the team members as there are no influencing or controlling taken by the leader
to control the team member’s actions.
In case of
me, to control the team and to deal with the team members I am quite deliberate
to deal with the team members. So I can recognize me as the positive team
leaderI, to perform the team work, welcome active the participation of the team
members to contribute in the team decision. So, here I will declare myself as
the tram player not loaner.
Element-4
My
uniqueness in the leading the project:
To lead a team successfully, it is important for every
leader to make the unique & special approach to deal with his/her team as
the objective, demand, success factors and aspect of all team are not same. On
the other hand, in highly competitive global market, to be sustained, there is
no alternative to deal with the team strategically to exert the best efforts of
the team members to achieve the team objective. I am in the project to grow the
sales within my store with the help of team efforts; I require handling my team
strategically. My specialty in my leadership as the project manager is that I
consider the team members as the integral part of the entire project body not
my subordinate. I follow the co-operative style to enable the participation of
my team members. Not only that but also it highly motivate my members. I avoid
being to practice dictatorship as i want to be deliberate to handle my team. I
feel more learning from the member provide me the best options for the
development and effectiveness of my team (Algert, 2006).
My performance:
To lead my
team I was quite successful. The project objectives were to have the increased
sales volume & to prevent the losing trend in sales in the store. Our team
was hungry produce the significant growth in sales though preventing the losing
trends in sales. From the analysis of our team performance to increase, I can
recommend that we touched the target point. The recent report says that the
sales volume of the store has significantly increased.
Behind this
success, there is a systematic approach was taken by me. I analyse the current
situation. Focusing the findings I set a standard for achieving the targeted
sales. I make the team with the participation of the best people from the sales
department and trained them to be perfect in achieving the goals of the
project. I coordinate the efforts of the members of the team. At last the
findings are compared with performance standard. If there is any visible
dispersion, I will take the necessary steps to redeem it. In this way I managed
the change (Raudsepp, 2002).
Recommendations
to develop myself:
In dealing
the team, I am quite successful. But there are some opportunities to maximize
the success of my team. For that I have to make myself enable to support the
more strategic approaches to lead my team. I am not with the adequate skills to
exert the best effort my team still now. My leadership skills require some
developments steps. The recommendations will be following to enhance my
leadership skills (Raudsepp, 2002):
In my team,
my image is highly easy going which sometimes makes my team members to disobey
my orders & wants more relaxation. This is a big treat to have the better
performance. For that reason, I have to improve my controlling skill as the
team leader.
One major
problem in my leadership skill is that I am highly process oriented. This
process orientation sometimes makes my team members less productive and less
innovative. For achievement of the project objective, I require to be target
oriented which will enable me to produce high productivity & high
innovation within my team. It will ensure the maximum utilization of the
capacity of the members.
Conclusion:
In this assignment, I have made an analysis on the
current business current changed business situation. I have find out that how
the team and group within the current business situation contributing to
achieve the business success. I have shown the difference team and group, their
aspects & their suitability. I have recognized my team as the team. Based
on the analysis I have traced out the success of me as the team leader as well
as the project success. I have analysed my level of capacity as a leader. Based
on the analysis I have made recommendation about where & how I will make the
development.
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