HRM Organizational Issues at Fine Arts Inc.

Fine Art Inc., are facing challenges, sales are falling and the firm needs to find a way to turnaround the decline. In order to achieve this, a team has been put together, with senior mangers from the different departments. It has been argued by many theorists that multifunctional have the potential to be highly beneficial with the different team members able to bring differing perspectives and inputs into the teams' performance, but that there is also the greatest potential for dissonance in multifunctional trams due to the differences (Weingart et al., 2010). However, in the case of Fine Arts, while all the team members may want the firm to succeed, the multi-functional team that has been put together does not appear to be achieving anything, there is conflict which is focused on Randy, who is highly intelligent...

Unfortunately, he also appears to be able to influence the views of others with his remarks and actions leaving them feeling inadequate.
In any team the team members will bring their own experiences and perceptions to the team, these will invariably reflect upon attitudes towards the team, the interaction with others on the team and the overall team performance. It would be easy to try and blame Randy for the failure of the team, he is certainly a disruptive influence, but he is only able to create this level of disruption because he is being allowed to behave in this manner. The Saudis previous experience has demonstrated him that he can behave in this manner; the behavior is being allowed by the team members, which is facilitated by the lack of cohesion,…