¶ … Team Building in the Workplace by Fapohunda Tinuke Fapohunda, Tinuke

Effective Team Building in the Workplace

The article sets out eight important points identified by various other authors that promote effective team development. The eight points are decision making authority; clear goals; accountability and responsibility; training and development; effective leadership; provision of resources; organizational support; and rewarding team success.

The paper evaluates team development in organizations by exploring key issues linked to application of teamwork, and studies the projections and difficulties in team building in order to offer a realistic notion, regarding what is achievable through teamwork. Two primary skills in team building process exist. The first entails understanding the issues properly, while the second deals with tackling the issues appropriately, in a proper order and way. Usually, team building is made up of various forms defined by nature and the size of the team. For example, in circumstances where a team is constantly changing, the focus shifts to developing skills in people to ensure they are effective members of the team, since it is devoted to changing the skills and capabilities of people operating in a team or in multiple teams. Nevertheless, in cases where being a member of a team is pretty static, such as management teams, the focus changes to efforts directed at refining relations between members of a team. One important focus of team building involves changing the behaviours as well as attitudes prevailing in an organization that seem to be independent of the...

Owing to tasks usually being collective, naturally, the results of discussions in teamwork are negotiation and compromise. Although no members may receive all their wishes, the results always imply best thoughts as well as priorities in every group member. Teamwork seems to be quite efficient because its outcomes allow every member to feel that their perception is adequately accounted for and represented (Fapohunda, 2013).
Review and Evaluation

The author is a professor at Lagos State University, skilled in survey research, team building, research design and total quality management. Although the paper seems to lack a clear methodology, it appears to follow systematic literature review. Systematic literature reviews are usually acknowledged as the 'gold standard' for synthesising evidence since meta-analysis offers strong ways of analysing datasets. The author uses evidence and its interpretation in leading the reader toward a similar conclusion. The author builds a logical argument. For instance, the paper lists requirements for developing effective teams such as (i) adequate number of team members, (ii) adequate degree of corresponding skills, (iii) meaningful purpose, (iii) explicit goal or goals, (iv) an acknowledged approach for the team's work, (v) a feeling of mutual responsibility, and (vi) properly defined leadership structure (Fapohunda, 2013).

However, over a span of decades, Dyer and Dyer (2013) show that four factors must be understood in order for a team to attain superior performance. Dyer and Dyer (2013) refer to the four factors as the four Cs:

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