Question

As a team becomes larger, more people are available to divide up the work and accomplish needed tasks. This can boost performance and member satisfaction, but only up to a point. At some point, communication and coordination problems set in due to the sheer number of linkages that must be maintained. Satisfaction may dip, and turnover, absenteeism, and social loafing may increase. Even logistical matters, such as finding time and locations for meetings, become more difficult for larger teams.

Analyze this statement in light of what we have learnt in class regarding teamwork and its impact on work performance with relevant and authentic examples from your experience.(your answer should not be more than 150 words)

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Answer 1

Answer: When the number of people in a team increase, the problems to manage them also rise proportionately. This is because a culture of unnecessary expansion (which means filling vacancies for the sake of it) without analysis leads to chaos. There are people on the team who are wasting time or waiting for someone to assign tasks. There are some other people on the team who pretend to be working when actually they are simply checking their emails too frequently (disguised unemployment).

All this leads to delayed work and increased costs for the company in which these people work.

This is ultimately killing the true team spirit where everyone together achieves more. Because no one is achieving more as each one is doing less.

The ideal case is to form a team based on work requirements and then assign reporting relationships.