Organizational Behavior

Questions: 1. What does this questionnaire reveal about the particular factors that would keep you from working well in teams? 2. What do you think can be done to overcome your barriers to working in teams? Answers: 1. Although I have scored intermediate in the self-assessment test, working in the team can be sometimes tricky. According to my questioner, I stand in a neutral position as a team player. The factors, which are acting as barriers, are I tend to work more productively and effectively when I work alone. I do not like sharing my credits with other as in teams people as expected to work in coordination. This factor indicates that I like to control the overall process and progress in the task, and I do not easily rely upon others regarding work. In addition, I am likely to take decisions on my own that can affect the entire organization, which other team players may not like. I also have the propensity to accomplish the work more fruitfully when I work alone and my performance decreases hen I work in-group. Working with others is not at all important to me, I like to take the whole responsibility of the task or project, and I go to extends to finish it. There is a lack of team commitment , which is necessary for the coordination of a productive team (Kozlowski et al., 2015). However, I am capable of taking decisions and solving problems, my lack of working on the variety of tasks will create difficulty in teamwork. All the above factors can create hitches for me to work in groups. 2. Excellent team players frequently defined in appropriate conditions; i.e., they explained as reliable, flexible, or accommodating. Although a team works on hierarchy order, we are focusing on my development of skills to work as team members. Firstly, I need to focus on developing more on commitment towards teams performance. An effective team member stands with his team in good and bad for that reason the development of consistency and constructive and effective communication with peers and superiors is necessary. Good listening skills are another attribute that can make an individual a good team player (West, 2012). A successful team needs team members who are good at listening to understand, recognize, and think about ideas and opinions from other team members not involving in any debating and arguing at any point of discussion. Team members sometimes receive criticism from others as well as from superiors, so I need to develop proper listening skills to avoid any conflict with the team. To become an active team member, it is necessary to be an active participant in team tasks and taking initiatives to complete tasks (Galegher et al., 2014). If we take the assessment result, I lack the ability to share with others, which is necessary as most of the communication within the team occurs in an informal way and effective sharing of communication fills the gap of communication in the process and helps in finishing the assigned task. Excellent team players, in spite of differentiations team members, coordinate to work mutually work (Stashevsky Levy, 2014). Cooperating team member acts in response to requests for help and grasps the inventiveness to recommend assistance. Thus, I have to work on the above-stated factors to develop my set of skills for productively working in a team. Reference: Galegher, J., Kraut, R. E., Egido, C. (2014).Intellectual teamwork: Social and technological foundations of cooperative work. Psychology Press. Kozlowski, S. W., Grand, J. A., Baard, S. K., Pearce, M. (2015). Teams, Teamwork, and Team Effectiveness: Implications for Human Systems Integration.APA handbook of human systems integration. Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association. Stashevsky, S., Levy, S. (2014). The effects of teamwork quality on team objective and subjective outcomes.Values in Shock The role of contrasting management, economic, and religious paradigms in the workplace,44. West, M. A. (2012).Effective teamwork: Practical lessons from organizational research. John Wiley Sons.