Question

2) There are three factors that impact team effectiveness (composition, structural, processes). What are the most useful and important? explain why?

Answer 1

The high performance of any team do not just appear , they are developed and nurtured. The development of team effectiveness takes the combined effort of visionary leaders and motivated team members. There are several factors within the organization itself influence the team effectiveness, it may include organizational culture, types of feedback mechanisms, level of autonomy etc. The major three factors which impact the team effectiveness are team composition, team structure, team process. I feel all these three factors are most important and useful and they are interdependent. Combined effort of all these factors will lead to development of high performance teams
Team composition: activities within the team often reflect the number and type of people who are team members. The combination of team member attributes can have major influence on team process and effectiveness. Team composition includes the skill sets, functional ties, attitudes, personal interests and other characteristics of the individual members who make up the team work. It is very important to put the right set of individuals together with relevant expertise in order to achieve the team goal and tasks and also improve the team effectiveness.
structural factors: The structural factors which impact the team effectiveness includes team or group type, size, and composition of skills and abilities. Usually task determines the size of the team, sometimes small teams are more productive than large ones especially during less complex projects, Large teams enable shared responsibility and accountability. Diversity on a team improves the productivity but extends the process. Every team members should have their role, it will keep the individuals to committed to their work. One more thing we need to consider in the team structure is Norms, are rules which have some amount of agreement and are enforced through social sanctions, Norms will helps to establish and control team members behavior.
Team process: The team process includes - trust development within the team, facilitation, leadership communication, cultural norms, roles cohesiveness, conflict resolution etc.