Case Study 4
1. Listo Systems: The Challenge of a Growing Organization
Defining the Context
Listo Systems, one of the world’s top graphic service companies, was established in the 1990s when technological advancements were increasing and creating a more competitive market. After going through a period of great success and growth, the company decided to hire a number of new employees and adding new layers of managers and supervisors.
Defining the Key Issues or Problems
The main issue is that Listo Systems has been growing too quickly, and the company has not been able to cope with this growth appropriately. Due to this situation, causal variables such as lack of proper training for new employees, management becoming less concerned
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Once this is done, they will feel motivated to work for the common good again.
As individuals start working for the common good, they will become more mature and as a result will be promoted (Argyris’s Maturity Theory). This way, employees will be more involved in the managerial position to which they were promoted, and it will also serve as an example for other employees to follow and look up to.
Organizational Level 4: Teams Entity (Groups) & Goals (Objectives)
Level four suggests that goals are achieved by teams. This is done through focusing, unifying, and connecting the vision. In this particular case, Listo Systems’ main aim should be to connect team members with each other as well as with the team’s goals.
Once again, goal-oriented behavior should be applied. This method will help motivate the workers, which will be beneficial for both individuals as well as the company. Also, connecting workers inside groups will help increase performance and as a result motivation. Since the current environment is a Theory X one, workers are in a controlled environment, with a highly structured system. This, according to the theory of interpersonal competence, is causing individuals to maintain only superficial relationships, and as a result not fulfilling their self-esteem and social needs. If management is encouraged to promote group work, workers will have to interact
Susan M. Heathfield in her article, “How to Build a Successful Work Team”, affirm that creating strong team it is hard work which required an ongoing process. First, for creating teamwork, it is necessary to familiarize employees with regular problems by providing methodical solutions for them. It will help them find out work environment faster. In the meantime, a significant factor in a team managing is attention to members’ work process, observing and directing their tasks for better recognizing their objectives. Equally important, implementing activities in the workspace where people can express their ideas and thoughts as it is rally workers into a solid team. In due time, it is important to hold meetings right, encouraging ice breaking
After working in this position for a while working in groups and introducing new group members is a key ingredient in building teams and relationships. In groups and teams, relationships are the feelings, roles, norms, statuses, and trust that both affect. They reflect the quality of communication between a person and others. The variables that have an important effect on relationships are made with others in small groups. These are the roles a person assumes, the norms or standards, the group develops, the status differences that affect the group's productivity, the power some members have, the trust that improves
Organizational and Industrial (I/O) psychology is used to improve different types of organizational functions. When tasks and employee relationships are not working properly within a company production and profit will be compromised. Some of the issues that I/O manages addresses include poor work habits and dysfunctional work relationships. The following will address group and team concepts that could be implemented to improve performance and diversity, leadership theories that can improve the relationship between management and floor workers, the influence
Team building is not only to improve the employee’s teamwork, but it is also to strengthen the core value of the employees to their work. Some of the employee does not ensure their situation or doubtful with their job whether the job is suitable for them or not. Many of the employees may think that they are only temporary work with this company and will transfer to other company soon. This shows that the employee who with this mind is not clear with their working
There is much to making the workplace into a successful team. In order to do this there is a lot of effort, patience and understanding that must take place. To make the workplace successful, certain protocols and ideals and even morals have to be instilled in the workplace. Each member of the team may have their own set of goals that motivate them. It would be extremely wise to try to implement those goals into the workplace for example if one team member has the goal of productivity and another has a goal of better service, these are goals that would benefit the workplace so it would be great to implement those goals into the workplace. To make these goals a reality the employer or leader of the team can offer
They, in turn, will work harder knowing that their leadership believes in
The purpose of this paper is to discuss different strategies for team building which helps is overcoming conflicts in a working environment. Based on current strategies available on subject, it tries to figure out some leading challenges to addressed, and extracting the best strategy for team building. It covers analysis of factors and measures for building up a successful team, which serves as a common ground for a progress in evaluation of best strategy for the particular purpose.
Staying relevant and growth oriented allows individuals to create those assets along the path to happiness. Plato bases his argument on “…the four cardinal virtues: wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice. ”(Austin) In the workplace, wisdom is so crucial. Whether you are brand new in a position or a veteran, utilizing wise ethical choices will earn you happiness in the long run.
5.0 Different roles within a team and the impact of..... personality types on a team.........................................8
Many organizations have difficulty forming effective working teams and that is because labor and management lack shared values. Another reason is because of the structure and function of problem solving teams was not established according to behavior science concepts and techniques. Additionally, it is important to consider that it is not always necessary for supervisors
marketplace whims and creating an environment that celebrates individualism while at the same time wholly supportive of teamwork; 2. Supporting Teamwork-through this strategy, the company will manage to avoid traditional weaknesses that have plague many companies and develop a collaborative workplace that allow either individualism or consensus building to be taken to extreme; 3. Developing cross-functional individual – most companies tend to recruit, train, and promote people with in
The employees feel that they have greater responsibility and trust put on them, this can generate greater participation, commitment, and a better job performance.
In 2011 I worked in Oil Company which is one of the biggest companies in the world. This company has used the competition in its system, so that can make the employees to work hard to achieve their goals; however, that system hurts many of the employees by different ways. The company needs them to work overtime to increase the production, but without making studies against working overtime. Another thing that the company usually makes the employees to work with each other and that can promote the confidence of new hires to learn more from expert people, but sometimes the expert people couldn’t help the new hires if they need some helps. Many business places prefer working between employees by using one of the active ways which is working with
One of the most important tenets of this theory is that management must have a high degree of confidence in its workers in order for this type of participative management to work. Theory Z stresses the need for enabling the workers to become generalists, rather than specialists, and to increase their knowledge of the company and its processes through job rotations and continual training. In fact, promotions tend to be slower in this type of setting, as workers are given a much longer opportunity to receive training and more time to learn the intricacies of the company's operations. The desire, under this theory, is to develop a work force, which has more of a loyalty towards staying with the company for an entire career, and be more permanent than in other types of settings. It is expected that once an employee does rise to a position of high level management, they will know a great deal more about the company and how it operates, and will be