THE IMPACT OF TEAMWORK ON ORGANIZATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY

ABSTRACT
The extended essay reviews the impact of teamwork on organizational productivity. As such the literature review the concept of teamwork in organization and indicates that teamwork is an integral part of an organization that involve everyone working together to support the organization in order  to attains the organization goals. This implies that team work involves joint action and synergy that facilitate right yield through joint human resources and effort of team members. But inspite of the impact of teamwork on organizational productivity, teamwork is constraint by issue of conflate arising from misunderstanding among team member, poor or ineffective communication, inability of team work to harmonize their pace of work and lack of cooperation among some team members arising from their nonchalant attitude.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction
Background of the essay
Objectives of the essay
Significance of the essay
Scope of the essay
Limitations of the essay
CHAPTER TWO  
LITERATURE REVIEW
Introduction
Concept of teamwork
The impact of teamwork on employees productivity
Key factors that influences team effectiveness
Building an effective team
Factors militating against teamwork in workplace
The problem of teamwork in an organization
CHAPTER THREE:
SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Summary
Conclusion
Recommendations

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1     BACKGROUND OF THE ESSAY

Teamwork is usually an integral part of the work place. Basic teamwork involves everyone working together to support the organization and complex forms of teamwork could involve “work teams” chosen to complete a project by working closely. teamwork enhances productivity through joint and collective effort.  Allowing team members to bring their specific education and training to a project or a work task, which maximizes the variety of work the team can accomplish as well as the number of tasks completed without additional research. It is true that more minds can sometimes work better than a single one (Okoh, 2006).

Teamwork is the actions of individuals, brought together for a common purpose or goal, which subordinate the needs of the individual to the need of the group. In essence, each person on the team put aside his or her individual needs to work towards organizational objectives. The interaction among the members and the work they complete is called teamwork.  Effective teamwork is essential to the success of any business. As “no man is an island”, the positive effects of productive teamwork can energize an entire organization, just as the negative effect of a lack of team work can cripple an organization. An essential ingredient to effective teamwork is attracting and keeping the right team members that would facilitate productivity in an organization. As  such most human resource approaches lay so much emphasis on teamwork due to its importance to organizational productivity. Hence the need to conduct an extended essay on the impact of teamwork on organizational productivity.

1.2     OBJECTIVE OF THE ESSAY

The main objective of the study is to examine the impact of teamwork on organizational productivity. The specific objectives are;

1.  To identify the relationship between teamwork and productivity.

2.  To identify the sources militating against teamwork in workplace

3.  to proffer recommendation to the identified problem as reviewed in the literature.

1.3     SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ESSAY

The study would be beneficial to corporate organization as it would enhance policy formulation as regard teamwork in workplace. The study would also be beneficial to the general public, as it will educate them on the impact of teamwork on organizational productivity. The essay will also contribute to the existing knowledge on organizational teamwork. The study will be a useful material to incoming students who may wish to use this study as a reference material to undertake their own extended essay.

1.4     SCOPE/LIMITATION OF THE ESSAY

The study will cover an extended essay on the impact of teamwork on organizational productivity. The essay reviews opinions of authority on the concept of teamwork in workplace as well as the key factors influencing team effectiveness and factors militating against teamwork in workplace.

1.5     DELIMITATION OF THE ESSAY

The study is constraint with limitation arising from inadequate material on the subject matter as well as inadequate time due to the inability of the writer to combined lectures with this extended essay, adequate finance is also a great limitation to this extended essay.

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