Week 13 - Teamworking

Recently I had to do an assignment about exploring the organisational culture of a company per member of the group and then focus on 2 of the companies to find out their policies and how they work. for this we used primary research and secondary research in order to find the formal and informal culture. the members of my group were; graham, rich, chris and me. the two companies we focused on were games workshop, a warhammer shop, and .





We divided the report amongst us so that everyone did something and didn't feel left out.


teams are a selection of people with a comman goal and purpose and who will support the other members of the team to achieve the best result possible. teams are different to groups seeing as groups are people that have contact with each other, know eachother and see themselves as a group. a team on the other had goes beyond this because they support eachother to achieve a comman goal. many people tend to like working in a group because it gives us a sense of being part of something and gives us securtity as you know u can count on someone to help you if you're in over you're head. teamwork tends to be a step up from this in which the members of the team motivate and inspire the other members so that they can achieve the best results of their shared goal.there are many benificial things that occur from working in a team, people can become motivated or even inspired by their team members, they can gain new key skills and they can achieve better grades due to extra input from the team.





Stages of team development - (Tuckman 1973)a team is formed in stages, forming which is where people are polite, guarded and impersonal trying to figure out the other members.after this the storming stage begins in which conflicts occure, people may be demotivated, there is a feeling of not being able to move forward. members of the forming team might be lost through conflict.then norming kicks in where by the team starts to organise each other and establish systems and procedures. issues are confronted so that they can be dealt with and solved.perfoming is the last stage and here the team really comes together to form closeness. members become flexible for eachother and support and tolerate eachother. they share resources to achieve .usually once the teamwork has finished a final stage happens, this is adjourning when team mates reflect and evaluate their work. there is also anxiety and sadness about the seperation and ending of the team work.





for our team the stages of development were very clear.rich and i were close friends before the assignment so we were straight into storming, but with graham and chris we started very politely, we listened to ideas and even if we didn't agree we wouldn't yet create conflict but instead called it a good idea and listen to any other ideas that appealed more. chris was very guarded at the begining and didn't contribute much to the pooling of ideas but tended to agree with the idea everyone else agreed on. graham listend very attentively to ideas contributing several himself.after this the storming phase began, in this graham created conflict because he always saw a problem with our ideas, if we solved them he was happy and managed conflict between us if me and rich had equally good ideas. rich wanted to mostly start doing the things but still contributed to ideas. chris was still very held back but also voiced issues he had with ideas. i came up with ideas and tried to solve the problems the others found in them.during the norming graham became a sort of leader of us, he organised our parts of the plan and helped out if we were stuck and if he had time. all of us jst started to work on what graham had given us.the performing stage was the best because there was a feeling as though we were all on the same level. everyone was ther for eachother i.e. researching something for someone if they were behind from writing a different part of the report.once the task was complete we all saw eachother in a different light with more respect and inspiration. we were very relieved though to have finally completed the task.





in 1993 belbin established some team roles.he found that there were roles that people showed when working in a group.Co-ordinator (chairperson), they help focus the team and can control and motivate individuals to get the best out of themthe shaper has strong opinions, loves to hear his own voice and wants to get started, they also becaome restless and frustrated when the team comes to a hold.plants are very creative and have meny ideas to contribute to the team, they can solve problems but tend not to get involved in them. they are the genius that formes the ideas and lets the other members perform it.the teamworker tries to involve all members of the group and produces a team feel.the implementer (company worker), is more practical than theoretical, he changes ideas into action to produce results.rsource investigators have lots of contacts and like ot explore and collect data for the team.a monitor/evaluator is very accurate and logical, they analyse and check everything to make it perfect.comleters/finishers brings all the different information together.specialists are purely used when theres is specific knowledge and skills required.all members of my team took the testrich was an implementer so he wanted to get things done. this was very reflective of how he worked during our teamwokr assignement. once we had chosen an idea he would go and do it or try it out to get it done quickly.Graham was chairman and put it all together at the end.chris was a teamworker and tried to make us bond.i was a plant. i believe my style of working did reflect this as i came up with most of the ideas and knew how to solve them, however i did need motivation from the other members to actually turn those brilliant ideas into results.





overall i think that due to us bonding as a team we supported, motivated and inspired eachother so that we gave our best and made valuable contributions to eachothers work. i also think that it is a very good idea to use teamwork to perform a difficult task as not only does it bring the team together but also produces better results.