By analyzing the article of Prodancius (2012) on how one sees his career path supporting the direction of an organization while motivating and leading employees to be a high performance team, it appears that the author chose seven scholars (authors) to present their thoughts on the importance of studying an organization. Therefore, getting a deep knowledge of what an organization should be, through its definition, its structure composed by effective communication, effective coordination, speed and responsiveness and empowerment of the employees, as well as its functions, its goals, and its environment of operation should help a leader forming and motivating a high performance team of employees to reach the fixed goals of a given organization. In defining an organization, these scholars or writers present, of course, different definitions, but all these definitions have the individuals as a common denominator, in terms of talking about the group of people, individuals, agents, actors freely coming together to achieve the particular common goals of the organization. By comparing an organization to an institution, Tudosescu (1978), ends up with the term or concept of “institutional-organizational set” because for him the criterion that makes a typology of an organization is the same one as for the typology of institution, but unfortunately he did not say what this criterion is, therefore, one may ask based on what criterion an organization is an institution?
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
According to the article, seven practices make the organization successful. Firstly, Employees security is very important. If they feel so stressful about losing their jobs then they can’t focus more on their work. So employees security plays a crucial role in success of organization. Secondly, important practice is selective hiring. Companies need to have large pool of applicant to select the best. They should have clear idea about the required qualities for the position. Moreover, Skills and abilities sought to be carefully considered rather than their academic skills and they should focus on the attitude of the applicant as it cannot be changed by training or any other force. Southwest example in the article proved how important this hiring process was. Self-managed teams and decentralization as basic elements of organizational design should be practiced. An organization to be successful should have efficient teams. Everyone in team should feel the responsibility to develop the firm. Authors Jeffrey and Veiga explained this using VANCOM example. Comparatively High Compensation Contingent on Organizational Performance is also one such good practice. High compensation should be a progenitor, not a consequence of organization performance.
The link between individual, team and organizational performance is meeting the objective of the organization.
Having an organization in which everyone is committed to finishing the job will have great value. Working in a team based organization will help members not only respect one another but also provide members to recognize each members worth or contributions. It is possible to achieve success the demanding market without compromising one’s ethical principles yet it can be down by promoting corporate social responsibility.
On the other hand, organizational performances can be enhanced in the following manner; by creating success requires respect for everyone’s needs, talents, and aspirations, as well as an understanding of the dynamics of human behavior in organizational systems. Organizations do well when the people in them work hard to achieve high performance, as individuals and as members of teams. The ultimate goal of OB is to improve the performance of people, groups, and organizations, and to improve the quality of work life overall (Schermerhorn, 2011).
Ivancevich, Konopaske and Matteson (2008) mirror these views by holding on to the concept that the use of team work in the organization forcefully follows the structured schema of identifying true leaders within the organizational structure, facilitating the emotional commitment of such leaders and evaluating the progress of the teams by using a mix of people from different levels and departments in the organization. The efficiency of the coalition leads to improved performance for both short term and long-term goals.
When the DOC’s individuals are viewing their goals as supporting the goals of the organization, the team’s interdependence has been recognized as reciprocally supporting. The DOC teams are functional groups due to improved communications, productivity through brainstorming and information gathering abilities, which creatively solves problems by using analytical steps (Staggers, Garcia, & Nagelhout, 2008). While the process of teamwork may be a learned behavior, support for the team must be processed through several individual stages. These stages are necessary milestones that build synergized teams that work toward a common goals of the team and organization. The SOA, DOC’s team building tactics have inadvertently and unexpectedly progressed through the five stages of Cog’s Ladder. While the technical name may be alluding the DOC, the success of their teams is measurable. The most recent and successfully measurable DOC team may be analyzed and compared to Cog’s
In today's society some corporations have achieved success by replacing the hierarchical boss-subordinate relationship with that of an empowered work team. Many corporations know the value of a high-performance team. A high-performance team has a great deal to offer to the organization. In a team environment, people are not managed, controlled or supervised. They are led by their mutual vision of the organization's purpose and goals. Teams surpass individuals working alone, especially when performance requires several abilities, verdict, and active involvement...
In the government-sponsored organization of Skills for Tomorrow it is important that employees and management realize that effective team management is the key to successful operations. Having a more effective team in place will create a more successful organization by
Realizing that a group can become a high performance team is important. Accomplishing this goal is invaluable, advantageous and profitable. Once able to operate from a group to the high performing team is a great step into preparation into the big business world. Leaders and members must also realize not only how to accomplish this but that some problems will and can arise from different demographic characteristics and cultural diversity. That is if one is in such a group, which the probability would be quite high.
According to Miles et al. (1978, p. 547), an organization is both its purpose and the mechanism constructed to achieve the purpose. It means that the concept of organization is embracing both goals and all the elements that represent unique combination. Miles et al. (1978, p. 553) draws the conclusion that structure and the processes taking place inside the organization are closely aligned; it is hard to speak about one without mentioning the other. It is important to understand the conclusion drawn by Miles et al. (1978). It illustrates how the
Organizations are social entities that are goal directed, are designed as deliberately structured and coordinated activity systems, and are linked to the external environment (Kirst-Ashman, 2011). The four main parts of that definition are social entity, goal directed, deliberately structured, and link to external
The team working is an important concept of the society wherein few people work together towards a common goal. In American culture, working in teams often considered contrary. Marvin Weisbord, author and organizational development expert, mentioned that, “Teamwork is the quintessential contradiction of a society grounded in individual achievement.” Still building, leading and organizing successful teams considered as a critical leadership task. It is always challenging to have people work together closely to achieve specific tasks in any team environment.
The term “institution” is commonly applied to customs and behavior patterns important to a society, as same as to particular formal organizations of government and public services. Institutions are structures and mechanism of social order and cooperation governing the behavior of a set
Different authors has defined the Organization in different ways, according to Keith Davis, “Organization may be defined as a group of individuals, large of small, that is cooperating under the direction of executive leadership in the accomplishment of the certain common object.” (Publish your articles, 2015)