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Wells Fargo: The Five Dysfunction Of A Team

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We have seen for a couple of years that Wells Fargo goes under a lot of pressure and unrealistic sales target to built on selling as many products to customers as possible and to where we see employees committing fraud. “Former employees of Wells Fargo said that is what they face on the job,” (Matt Egan). And now the bank is struggling to rebuild trust in an industry already fighting banker reputation. Wells Fargo found 2 million fake accounts were opened by bank workers without customer’s authorization and secretly 5,300 hundred employees were fired, Wells Fargo finds $185 millions of dollars. Wells Fargo is taking stronger steps to address the scandal”, (Matt Egan). Wells Fargo said they have strengthened the company training program controls …show more content…

“Wells Fargo failed on instituting sales goals, minimizing the problem, blaming employees, neglecting to call for help and ignoring warning signs” (Burns, 2016). Trust comes to both ways if the employees do not trust the bank the problem cannot be fixed, an organization if there is no trust there is no way it can run smoothly, because of the lack of trust customers and team members were harmed in the process. While trust is broken between management and the employees which create a lack of trust between the workers in the organization. This is a competitive environment where if you cannot stay on sales goal we seen employees will be fired, which created a bad relationship where you cannot trust the people you work with. And we also saw Wells Fargo defined as a fear of conflict as well. Which lead to major issues to the organizations, where we see that the organization is performing illegal and morally wrong acts. One of the solutions that I have to solve the trust issues was Wells Fargo can host a retreat for the workers where they can have a different exercise that builds trust among others workers and communicate with one another, so the problem can be …show more content…

Lencioni wants us to understand that profit is not the only way to determine if a team can be successful and there are other ways to make an organization flourish. In this case, Wells Fargo did that which led to a dysfunction in their organization and had many team members cared about individual instead of the organization as a whole. “Bloomberg has claimed that an outside review into more than 165 million deposit and credit-card accounts found an additional 1.4 million that were potentially unauthorized, bringing the total to about 3.5 million” (Keller). Wells Fargo should address the scandal by holding the executive accountable for what happened, instead of firing employees only. And they have to make sure investors are aware of the issues that are going in the organizations and figuring out how they can fix it. And they have to communicate frequently to make sure nothing like this ever happen

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