Name: Michiel Coenraad
Surname: Welgemoedt
Student number: 66391946
Module: PYC4810
Date: 13 October 2022
Assessment: October exam
, Section A
Question 1
Recognizing the whole performance of teams is particularly crucial when it comes to teams.
Team spirit will be strengthened to a greater extent when employees receive rewards from the
business for the accomplishments of their teams (Greenberg, 2011). Gain-sharing programs
offer incentives to teams who surpass business performance targets and let team members
participate in business profits. According to research, teams function most effectively when
its members are compensated according to both their individual performance and the
performance of the team as a whole. Many businesses compensate employees based on the
breadth of their talents as well as how effectively they perform since it is crucial for team
members to have a diverse range of skills. A system like this is called skill-based
compensation. The number of abilities learned, and the degree of competency obtained are
closely correlated with the pay scale (Greenberg, 2011). The business is certain that it has the
resources for its teams to perform efficiently by fostering the development of essential talents
in this way.
Even the most gifted team members may struggle if their leaders are ineffective. It's crucial to
recognize that leaders are just one factor in a team's success, despite their real contributions
and the significance assigned to them in society. Some teams could perform well or poorly
regardless of the impact of their leaders. The amount to which even the strongest leaders can
have an impact is constrained by two groups of external factors that affect team performance.
These include team-level limitations (i.e., elements of the technical and organizational setting
in which the team functions) and contextual restrictions (i.e. variables connected to the team's
operating environment's larger institutional context). Challenges that force a team to perform
at a high level tend to unite the members of the team. As a result, it is important to emphasize
how quickly those requirements must be met (Greenberg, 2011).
Team members must possess the ideal combination of abilities to meet their teams' goals in
order to be effective. The business might take proactive measures to make sure that team
members will get along and perform as expected rather than just throwing teams together and
hope they will work. Team building refers to formal initiatives designed to increase the
effectiveness of teams. When established teams start to exhibit symptoms of difficulties, such
as when members lose sight of their goals or when turnover is significant, team building is
frequently employed to address the issue. High levels of autonomy at work necessitate
knowledge and skills that are more in-depth than those of other, more conventionally
specialized workers (Greenberg, 2011). Because of this, effective teams are the ones in which
leadership and team member skill development are prioritised. Any team training endeavour
must focus on two areas in order to be successful: training in teamwork and training in self-
management. Team building often consists of having participants engage in a variety of
activities that are intended to teach them how to work successfully as a team. Among the
most widely used activities are:
Exercises in defining roles: Are team members acting in accordance with expectations?
Teams with members that respond negatively are doomed to failure. Some team-building
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