Effective Team Building in Today’s Organizations

Team building is important for business for making the management structure more flexible, people focused, and improvement in organizational model and collaboration.

Highlight points:

Team building is helpful successfully implementing business needs and competitiveness.
To implementing structural, hierarchy, and control over the system require to adopt it and replace with traditional organization system.
This is actually modern organizational theories’ part. It may include system thinking, human behavior, as well as adaptability.
Focus on employee motivation, participation, and satisfaction.
A team is defined by shared goals, mutual trust, collaboration, and collective responsibility.
Team Spirit may enhance innovation, resilience, and long-term organizational performance.

Traditional organizational theory.

It refers to the relevant theories in the traditional empirical management phase of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. At this time, the focus of the enterprise is production. The variety is relatively single, and a high degree of centralized and unified management is required.

The main representative theories are:

(I) Taylor’s theory of functional organizational management. He proposed separating the management function from the executive function in the enterprise. The planning function from the executive function. Its theory breaks the traditional linear organizational form and improves the efficiency of enterprise work.

(II) Fayol’s organizational theory. He proposed separating the top management of an enterprise or company from general management and separating responsibilities. He emphasized the structural form of the organization and the role of the staff department, and proposed the organizational structure form of the linear functional system.

(III) The theory of the meager ideal organizational form. These experts believe that in business organizations, authority and responsibility should be determined strictly according to the division of positions and ranks. People in the organization should be guided by rational principles, deny the influence of personal feelings, and should formulate and implement strict rules and regulations in the organization.

Modern organizational theory.

Now days, the market competition of enterprises intensified, and enterprise organizations must also change with changes in the market environment. To get result in the emergence of modern organizational theory.

It believes that the enterprise organization must be an open system suitable for the large system of the external environment.

In order to cater to competition, it is necessary to frequently adjust the content of operations, decentralize power, and change from a highly centralized system to a decentralized organization.

(1) Organization theory of the systems school:

This school views and deals with the organizational problems of enterprises with systems thinking. It believes that the enterprise is an open subsystem of the entire social system.

Which has three connotations: material technology, social culture and people.

From a systems perspective, management organizations can be divided into four subsystems with different interactions and functions, namely decision-making, command, staff, and control.

(2) Organizational theory of the behavioral school:

The people-centered organizational management is the core of the theory. Regardless of organizational structure, rules and regulations, and organizational behavior.

It should be considered based on the reasonable requirements and behaviors of employees in the enterprise, and organizational behavior should penetrate the consciousness of “participation in management” and believe that this is the source of organizational efficiency of enterprises.

This theory is a specific application of the organizational behavior school in management organizations, focusing on the study of human behavior and its laws.

(3) Contingency organization theory:

The organization theory originates from the contingency theory school. Which believes that there is no immutable model in organizational management, and appropriate enterprise organizational forms must be adopted according to changes in the internal and external environment of the enterprise and various factors.

Enterprise organizations should consider the specific content of various changing factors, including external environment, corporate strategy, technology and organizational structure.

In addition, some people have proposed the “6S” factor theory.

Which includes seven aspects: strategy, structure, system, common values, skills, personnel and style.

Organizations must consider the impact and requirements of these contingent factors. In the 80s of the centuries. Some scholars put forward the concept of “future organizational model“.

Believing that the ideal enterprise organization must adapt to three basic needs:

(1) the efficiency requirements of the general behavior of the organization.

(2) the need for constant innovation.

(3) The need to remain resilient in the face of major threats.

The development of India’s enterprise management organization.

The characteristics of this form are:

The organizational structure of the enterprise is single, and most of them are linear function systems.
Organizational rules and regulations focus on centralization and unity, ignoring feedback and horizontal coordination.
Diversified management subjects, multiple government departments.
Inefficient organizational behavior.

With the opening of the country’s door, India’s enterprises have implemented a big deal in terms of organization.

Enterprises throughout the country have carried out organizational reorganization after the introduction of the market economy system in India.

In the competitive environment of the market economy, enterprises carry out various forms of organizational reorganization.

Among them, there is a typical form that has come to the fore, and that is team building.

Team building is a new form of organization that is implementing, and apply in enterprises according to the relevant guiding principles of the behavioral school in modern organizational theory.

Traditional organizational theories belong to the “human model“. It is characterized by direct communication between people and weak institutional awareness.

Team organization is a “people-system-people” model.

It emphasizes that the overall goals of the organization take precedence over individual goals.

What exactly is a team?

In the 20s and mid-60s of the 70th century, Japan created a miracle of economic take-off, quickly becoming a world economic power, and the international competitiveness of enterprises ranked first in the world.

Taking this as an opportunity, Western countries, led by the United States, became deeply interested in the Japanese miracle. They began in-depth research on Japanese companies to find out the secret of Japan’s economic miracle.

At the same time, people from all walks of life in Japan have also conduct in-depth discussions on “Japanese-style management” in order to sum up experience and continue to move forward.

After extensive and in-depth research, it is generally believed that the root cause of the strong competitiveness of Japanese companies lies not in the excellence of the individual abilities of their employees, but in the strength of the overall “team work” of their employees. It is the new organizational form of Japanese companies – the team that plays a key role.

Thinking and Participation of Employees

Based on this understanding, Europe and the United States suddenly woke up to the fact that they cling to the traditional organizational form. Do not carry out organizational reorganization, rely only on the leader’s dedication without the thinking and participation of employees.

Only improve the personal ability of employees without effective teamwork, and have lost their vitality in today’s increasingly competitive world.

To be successful, we must make full use of human resources and form a strong team. To this end, Europe and the United States vigorously learn from Japan’s team building experience, build teams one by one, and strive to cultivate team spirit.

Since then, a mighty hurricane of team-building has raged many businesses around the world. The team has since shown strong vitality.

The emergence and application of the team is only a few decades later. So, the theory about it is not very mature. This immaturity is also reflected in the concept of the team, which is viewed differently by domestic and foreign professionals.

What is a team? There is an example that illustrates it well. Every year after the end of the professional basketball tournament in the United States.

The best players from each outstanding team will be selected to form a “dream team” to compete in various places to create another wave of climax.

But the “dream team” always wins less and loses more, often disappointing fans, why? The reason for this is that they are not really a team.

Although they are the top players in each team, they usually do not belong to the same team, and (they do not form a unique process pattern between internal members in terms of playing style and position) and cannot cultivate team spirit and form an effective team attack. What is a team?

General Thoughts..

In general, a team is a group that is voluntarily grouped and approved by leadership due to common interests and hobbies, skills, and common goals in work relationships. Team members work together to accomplish team goals, which are fully aligned with the achievement of organizational goals.

Team building is an activity in which an enterprise organizes the team in a planned and purposeful manner in management, and trains, summarizes and improves its team members.

Relatively speaking, foreign companies take a little longer to carry out team building. Their experience is richer, the scale is relatively large, and the results achieved are more remarkable.

Our country started late in this regard, lacks due experience, and some well-known enterprises in India are only in the pilot stage.

However, the team has fully demonstrated its vitality after its introduction in India. Which will be mentioned in the middle part of this paper.

As a new thing, the team must have its unique personality. Which is the reason and basis for its existence.

Generally speaking, it has the following three characteristics:

1) In terms of the relationship between the team and its members.

The team is manifested as a strong sense of belonging and unity of the team members.

Team members strongly feel that they are part of the team, and sincerely link their future to the fate of the team, and are willing to do their best for the interests and goals of the team.

Team members have unlimited loyalty to the team, never allow anything to harm the interests of the team, and have a great sense of team honor, often proud of the team’s success, and worried about the team’s plight.

When dealing with the relationship between personal interests and team interests, team members will adopt the principle of putting team interests first, individuals obey the team, oppose individualism and mountaineering, maintain public interests and big interests, and prefer to sacrifice private interests and small interests.

The sense of belonging and unity mainly comes from the high degree of consistency between the interests and goals of the team and its members.

Through a series of institutional arrangements, the team has formed a highly solid community of destiny with its members, and the team and its members are closely related both materially and spiritually.

Through sustained and powerful educational publicity and a series of activities, the team also subtly cultivates members’ sense of coexistence and co-prosperity and deep and long-term emotions for the team.

2) In the relationship between team members.

The team is manifested as mutual cooperation and co-unity among members. Team members treat each other as “family” and are all part of the team. They are interdependent, in the same boat, they treat each other with sincerity, and share honor and disgrace.

First, members respect each other, treat others politely and humbly.
The second is mutual tolerance and accommodating their differences and uniqueness.
The third is to trust each other, treat others with sincerity, make promises, be convinced of each other, and entrust each other with heavy responsibilities.
The fourth is to help each other, cooperate with each other in work and improve together, and care for each other in life. In the process of interaction, team members gradually formed a series of behavioral norms, on the one hand, they live in harmony and are full of cohesion.

On the other hand, they promote each other, and for the success of the team. They often point out each other’s shortcomings and engage in disputes about things and people, with the ultimate goal of promoting better cooperation and pursuing the overall performance of the team.

3) In terms of team members’ attitude towards team affairs.

The team is manifested by team members’ dedication to team affairs and all-round commitment. On the one hand. In the process of development and when dealing with team affairs, the team strives to strive for the all-round investment of team members.

Strategize and act with all their strength, not only allowing members to exert their physical strength. But also using their brain and mental power to fully mobilize their enthusiasm, initiative and creativity.

On the other hand, the team members sincerely regard the team’s affairs as their own, and the officers are proactive and not only conscientious. But also conscientious, conscientious, diligent, energetic and enthusiastic.

Of course, the characteristics of the above three aspects of the team are also relative. First, in terms of depth, there are differences in the degree of each team.

Example

For example, some teams may have established a true sense of belonging as a whole, and team members feel the warmth of home. Other teams may remain mere formalities. Second, in terms of breadth, there are differences in scope between teams. Some teams excel in all three areas; Other teams may have only one or two of these aspects.

As a new thing, there are many types of teams, and it is inevitable that there will be different names. The three characteristics discussed above can only be regarded as ideal team characteristics (can also be called team spirit).

Which is the development direction and reference frame of team building. I think that apples are good and bad, good and bad, color, size, taste are different, we can’t just call the best one in the world, one apple is called an apple. The other is not called an apple (for the time being, we think that there is an apple in the world that we think is the best).

This is, of course, a fallacy. The same goes for teams. To judge whether an organization is a team, it is based on the purpose and content of the establishment of the team, and there is no need to use the above points to set the frame.

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