Importance Of Teambuilding For Organisations: A Comparative Report

Discuss about the Organisational Behavior and Management for Comparative Report.

The present report is a comparative report understanding the importance of teambuilding for an organisation. The present report is basically based on four different chosen articles on management that focuses on teambuilding. It is important to mention that the present article will delve deep into the aspect of team building and will take an opportunity to critically review and compare the four different articles taken for the research. In the present report a clear analysis would be done to understand the importance as well as the impact of teambuilding through the analysis of the articles and will also provide a rich comparative summary of all the four articles taken for the report in order to cover up the objectives of the study.

In the present section all the articles taken up for assessment will be included effectively with argumentative aspects coming into display. Teambuilding is an extremely important aspect for an organisation and hence it is important that it is taken into account by the organisations effectively and hence the present report will try to develop a clear critical review of the articles taken relevant to the topic. The four different articles taken for analysis are given below:

1. Understanding And Improving Teamwork In Organizations: A Scientifically Based Practical Guide: Salas et al., 2015

2. Towards Effective Team Building in the Workplace: Fapohunda, 2013

3. Team Building - Adding Value or Variety? Cresswell, 2009

4. An Analysis on the Effectiveness of Team Building: The Impact on Human Resources: Sualiman et al., 2012

The first two articles have discussed the aspects of teambuilding at the workplace. The first article presented by Salas et al., (2015) described that teams nowadays are pervasive in nature and present all around and hence it is important to develop a strong procedure to understand and improve teambuilding at the workplace. This study Salas et al., (2015) stated that team work is an integral part of an organisation and it is by the effective mechanism of teambuilding one company could achieve success. In the recent past there have been numerous researches on teambuilding and its importance, but this article has provided a strong platform that will help to understand and improve the procedure of teambuilding. As per Salas et al., (2015) teambuilding is a perennial and dynamic approach which helps a particular company to work as per the laid objectives. The authors have delved deep into the concept of teambuilding and have found out that over the years there have been different kinds of researches by different methods like survey, Meta analysis et cetera which has focused on revealing the need and the importance of understanding teambuilding at the workplace. This present article has been quite effective in stating nine different considerations which would help to understand teambuilding in an effective manner. The effectiveness of the teams is based on these nine considerations and the present article has been effective in discussing them effectively.  The authors have argued that teambuilding is becoming a key issue that needs to be handled effectively by the managers which is one of their basic jobs. Since the study has been done based on the different secondary sources found by the authors it provides effective outcomes and hence it could be said that the study had been able to prove the hypothesis taken. The study also highlights the importance of the managers and their roles in team building which stands to be important aspects of the study that has been covered by the authors effectively (Kipp, 2011).

On the other hand the study by Fapohunda, (2013) looks at the criticalities of teambuilding widely discussing the different approaches and the range of activities that has to be covered effectively for a manager to build up an efficient team. Fapohunda, (2013) believes there are eight key aspects which help in developing a team and also develops the efficacy of a team. To have a clear goal, effective decision making, accountability, training and development are some of the effective aspects which have been highly emphasised upon. The study has been very focused on its objective and has discussed the aspects which contribute to the development of performance of the teams. The crux of teambuilding stands to be the approach that a manager takes to form a team. Compassion, mutual trust and respect are some of the key attributes that a manager should have in order to build an effective team. The key idea that the author sends through this is there are many different aspects that are involved with teambuilding and it is important that a manager is able to develop ideas to frame teambuilding procedure (Khan & Ahmad, 2012).

The present article is Teambuilding – Adding Value or Variety? By Creswell, (2009) basically highlights the use of teambuilding in completing different activities related to the workplace. Cresswell, (2009) has done the study based on two different companies in New Zealand as a case base study which highlights the different use of teambuilding. The author has been able to find out clear outcomes which are favorable and states that teambuilding activities could be used resolving different work based problems. It has also been seen in the study that teambuilding is also used to improve and develop the team performance as well which directly affects the overall performance of the organisations. The present study has discussed the different aspects of teambuilding. The study has emphasised on understanding the interpersonal relationships of the employees working together as a team as well as the development of communication skills through effective interactive sessions. The study has mainly focused on revealing the impact of teambuilding on the employees’ professional life and it has showed that both the case study companies had experienced positive impact of teambuilding on their employees.  Since this is a research study completed by Cresswell, (2009) the methodology used by the author has been in line with the regulations of a primary research which has also helped to complete the study effectively.

Argument on the 3rd Article

The 4^th article is “An Analysis on the Effectiveness of Team Building: The Impact on Human Resources” by Sulaiman et al., (2012) is mainly an analytical study done to understand the effectiveness of teambuilding with reference to the impact on the human resources. It is important to mention that the present study includes the aspects of human resource management which focuses on the effectiveness of teambuilding.  According to Sulaiman et al., (2012) it is extremely important to have different efficient teams working in an organisation as it will help to focus on the organisational objectives effectively. Effective teambuilding aspects help to develop the employees from inside and help them to become perceptive, skilled and adaptive to every kind of environment (Klein et al., 2009). The study has delved deep into the role of human resource management to build an effective team in a company and since this research is a case based study it has helped the authors to get favorable results as the method used for the study has been good. The study stated that a team will only be effective when each and every member of the group knows each other well and hence it has emphasised on relationship making aspects of teambuilding (Khan & Ahmad, 2012). The different approaches to teambuilding have been discussed in the study which provides perfect platform for the future researchers to get insights from the study and work on the same topic to take the research on teambuilding further. It is important to mention that the present research is done from the point of view of the human resource management and hence it could be said that this research will also help to contribute to the improvement of the human resource management in organisations. Overall it could be said that the study by Sulaiman et al., (2012) has got effective results relevant to teambuilding and hence will help further researches on human resource functioning (Kipp, 2011).

All the four articles have been effective from their own standpoint as they set out to prove the individual hypothesis of these chosen articles. It is important to mention that teambuilding is an extremely important aspect in an organisation and hence all these four articles are effective to provide insights to the aspiring management professionals. The first article by Salas et al., (2015) focuses on understanding and improving teambuilding but the study did not care to provide primary evidence to teambuilding practices used in different organisations which has been done in the study completed by Cresswell, (2009). The lack of primary evidence still puts a question on the practical implementation of the different conditions that have been discussed by Salas et al., (2015). Even though Cresswell (2009) uses both quantitative data and qualitative data it is seen that in the research the literature review has not been completely in line with the subject of the research which could have provided a strong theoretical or conceptual support to the study which has been done by Fapohunda, (2013) in the study that concerns with effective teambuilding within organisations. The fourth article by Sulaiman et al., (2012) considers the aspects of an analysis of effectiveness of teambuilding from the point of view of HRM. The human resource is an important aspect and this study provides better insights in terms of descriptive data regarding teambuilding as compared to the other studies taken in this report (Hochberg & Tamhane, 2009).

Argument on the 4th Article

These articles reviewed in the present report provide different insights which would help the managers to build effective teams within an organisation. It is important to mention that all the fur articles provides different important attributes for instance the managers could use the nine considerations provided by Salas et al., (2015) in the first article to understand and improve teambuilding, on the other hand since the managers have to play a crucial role nowadays even in the HRM the last study provides effective insights to help them develop the effectiveness of teambuilding. Managers should work upon their decision making skills and communication skills as stated by Fapohunda, (2013) to develop their teambuilding skills which will help to develop the overall skill set of the managers (Rovio et al., 2010).

The present study of organisational behavior and management has been highly enriching for me. It has been a learning curve going through the lectures and analyzing the articles related to teambuilding. It is important to mention that so far I had theoretical knowledge about the importance of teambuilding but this present study as well as the lectures has helped me to comprehend the pragmatic importance of teambuilding which will help me as a management professional in the long run. It is also important to mention that as a student understanding the practical parts of teambuilding would have remained undecipherable if I wouldn’t have taken up this report. It is important to mention that this study has helped me to fill the gaps which I had initially regarding human resource management and I personally feel that my decision making skills will gradually develop.

Conclusion

The present study has taken into account comparison of four different management articles which have helped to cover up the different aspects of organisational behavior and the study of management. It is important to mention that with the comparison the different attributes related to teambuilding have been highlighted that would have aspiring management professionals in the long run. The key aspects like nine considerations and eight aspects of team building have been given which will help to discuss the aspect of teambuilding in the future.

References

Cresswell, D., 2009. Team building-Adding value or variety?.

Fapohunda, T., 2013. Towards effective team building in the workplace.International Journal of Education and Research, 1(4), pp.1-12.

Hochberg, Y. and Tamhane, A.C., 2009. Multiple comparison procedures.

Khan, A. and Ahmad, W., 2012. Leader's interpersonal skills and its effectiveness at different levels of management. International Journal of Business and Social Science, 3(4).

Kipp, M.E., 2011. Tagging of biomedical articles on CiteULike: A comparison of user, author and professional indexing. Knowledge Organization, 38.

Klein, C., DiazGranados, D., Salas, E., Le, H., Burke, C.S., Lyons, R. and Goodwin, G.F., 2009. Does team building work?. Small Group Research.

Rovio, E., Arvinen-Barrow, M., Weigand, A.D., Eskola, J. and Lintunen, T., 2010. Team building in sport: a narrative review of the program effectiveness, current methods, and theoretical underpinnings. Athletic Insight, 2(2), pp.1-19.

Salas, E., Shuffler, M.L., Thayer, A.L., Bedwell, W.L. and Lazzara, E.H., 2015. Understanding and improving teamwork in organizations: a scientifically based practical guide. Human Resource Management, 54(4), pp.599-622.

Sulaiman, W.I.W., Mahbob, M.H. and Hassan, B.R.A., 2012. An analysis on the effectiveness of team building: The impact on Human Resources. Asian Social Science, 8(5), p.29.