Team Performance and Organisational Culture: An Analysis

Assessing Team Performance and Dynamics

This part of the assignment gives you the opportunity to demonstrate your ability to work with other, based upon the understanding of group and group dynamics.

You are required to use ONE of the work teams (your department) in a company as contextual basis. You are going to assess and analyse the team theories and tools. During this process you are required to analyse various factors and skills that assist, facilitate or hinder effective teamwork in action or on morale. You also have to consider appropriate philosophy regarding team performances and the impact on behaviours.

The report reflects on the various concepts and theories of the team performance, analysing team dynamics, team members’ roles and behaviours. You should include in the report, an explanation of what factors are instrumental in teams effectively achieving their work objectives and identify those aspects which threaten teams or deter them from achieving success and performing cohesive group work.  Suggested areas for discussion as listed below:

Assess the benefits of working in a team: identify the mix of knowledge, skills and experience necessary for a team to fulfil its functions and roles in the organisation.
Demonstrate and discuss the benefits of working in a team as a leader and member in achieving specific goals; and dealing with conflicts or difficult situations during performing team assignments.
Evaluate team effectiveness in achieving the team goals.
Identify the importance of team effectiveness in achieving goals within the team.
Suggest ways to improve team effectiveness in view of the market changes and challenges faced by the organisation. 

Analyse the influence of culture, politics and power on employee behaviours in an organisational context.
Evaluate how to motivate individuals and teams to achieve organizational goal(s).

You are a Management Consultant hired by the senior management of an organisation of your choice (those in work should use your organisation of employment) to assess the current internal organisation environment and the employees’ performance.

The purpose of the analysis report will be to discuss and establish the influence that organisational culture and motivation has upon employee behaviours and performances in the workplace.

You will be required to identify and analyse the various organisational cultures and motivational theories, and to identify which one(s) could be found in your organisation. The discussion must then evaluate how the above-mentioned theories influence behaviours within organisations and how this affects the performance of your organization with relevant examples. It should also include how motivational theories and techniques have been applied in your organisation, supported by relevant examples. 
Finally, you will conclude with viable recommendations on how the organisation could improve the performance of their staff to meet organisational goals.

Analyse the influence of culture, politics and power on employee behaviours in an organisational context
Critically evaluate the relationship between culture, politics, power and motivation that enables teams and organisations to succeed providing justified recommendations.
Analyse how an organisation’s culture, politics and power influence individual and team behaviour and performance.
Critically analyse how the culture, politics and power of an organisation can influence individual and team behaviour and performance.
Evaluate how to motivate individuals and teams to achieve organizational goal(s).

Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context.
Critically evaluate how to influence the behaviour of others through the effective application of behavioural motivational theories, concepts and models.