Paper Topic:

Team Building

Team Building

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Abstract .3

Introduction .3

Team Building .4

Conclusion .10

References .11

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Abstract

Team building is an effective way of increasing productivity as well as employee motivation . Based on Abraham Maslow 's theory of motivation all individuals must have a sense of belongingness before they can reach their highest potential as some of the most productive team members of the organization as a whole . The task-specific team also recognizes the most important members of the team

. Besides , effective teams follow principles to make changes to the team . This allows team members to have a framework by which they can adopt or discard extraneous messages about the functioning of the team

Introduction

Team building is an art just as much as it is a science in the organizational behavior discipline . Effective team building helps human resource managers to identify a team 's strengths and weaknesses increase productivity in addition to efficiency , improve the interaction of team members , reduce stress levels in the workplace , and also to develop healthy inter-group relations (Team Building Ideas . As a matter of fact , team building as an art and a science is an ongoing process helping to evolve a group into a cohesive unit . The team members of the group share

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expectations for completing group tasks . Moreover , they trust and support one another and respect the individual differences within the group (Guide to Managing

A team builder is one who leads the team toward unity and productivity . Thus , the team takes on a life of its own . Yet the team builder -- with the guidance and assistance of the human resource department - must frequently nurture and maintain the team just as he would individual employees . In the case of the individual employees , a unity is needed among their work plans in their organization and the organizational goals . In the case of the team , however , the team builder would unite employees around a mutual team goal and generate greater productivity for the organization (Guide to Managing . Hence teams represent a saving of precious resources of the organization seeing that it is more cost-efficient to spend time and effort teaching and guiding groups of people instead of individual workers

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Teams contribute to the overall success of organizations in which they function . In these teams , fellow members of the organization get together to produce the results expected of them by the organization Although each individual has a particular job function in a specific department , the team unifies all that are identified for working together to accomplish the overall objectives of the organization . It is the bigger picture driving the actions of the team . All individuals with their specific job functions in the organization were serving the bigger picture anyway

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Page 5 (Heathfield , 2007 . The team only increases their motivation levels often to the peak . This is because the sense of belongingness is crucial before an individual , a team , or the organization as a...

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