Question

Using the company, or industry, that your team project is focused on, how could strong team cohesion at the firm both enhance and hinder performance. Also, does your chosen firm have any particular ethical considerations or worries that may impact teams?

Lastly, can you provide an example of a team you were on that excelled, or a team you participated on that was a failure? Why so?

Answer 1

Team cohesion is a multi-faceted process that can be broken down into four main aspects: multidimensionality, instrumental basis, dynamic, and emotional nature.

Working with a team also enhances the communication skills as when we meet people and try our best to represent the business of our client or company we are working on, it gives us the opportunity to meet more people and communicate, which therefore improves communication skills.

The hinders can be that some employees might just focus on personal goals and not prioritize the company's goals. Also, it hinders performance when leadership is not in the right direction. Team cohesion is helpful when leadership is effective and performed with planning.

Then, the firm also has some ethical consideration we have to focus on while working and they are as follow:

So the company is an NGO corporation that wants to raise its funds and bring changes in the lives of senior citizens. The firm wants all the people or individuals that donate or contribute to NGOs should have the right to know where their money is being utilized and get to visit the NGO whenever they wish to. Also, it believes in maintaining transparency and honestly between a corporation and it's donors.

The example of team failure is when I participated in a team project where the task was to aware at least 100 individuals randomly about the NGO corporation and raise funds for the senior citizens for 3 days. We couldn't achieve the goal because of a 'lack of teamwork and cooperation between team persons'. This led to the failure of leadership and team projects.