ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

Would you prefer to work alone or part of a team?

Why?

I will definitely support decision making in groups. I would like to work

in group. Because in group, we have more opportunities to take the
ideas of other and combine them to make a single decision and that is
the best approach. There may be wrong decisions but you must
consider the group of people who are taking the decision. There is
difference between the people. There are a number of instances in
professional as well as personal life when decision-making involves
opinions and inputs from more than one or two people. This is where
group decisions come into the picture. We always need group decision
making in our daily life as I discussed above. There are number of
examples about decision making. You must be aware of parliament of
any country. There are many members like MNAs or MPAs in the
parliament who’re making decisions. Though every member have own
ideas and choices, but all the members have to be the part of the
group. No any member is allowed to enforce the law or agreement on
the behalf of the whole nation. This is one of the major examples of
decision making in groups. The decisions in companies are also based
on group decisions. Because the main purpose of taking decision in
group is to save the interest of shareholders. Just think that group is
going to take the decision to save the interest of individuals. It clearly
means and reflects the strength of group decision making.
There are many advantages of taking decisions in group. Some of
them are as follow.
• Group decisions help to merge person strengths of the group
members and hence has a set of varied skill sets applied in the
decision making process.
• Individual opinions can be biased or affected with pre-conceives
notions are restricted perspectives, group decision help to get a
broader viewpoint owing to differences of insight between
individual in the group.
• In group decision making, you always have a broad image of the
problem that you’re going to solve with the help of decision
making in group.
• A group decision always means enhanced collective
understanding of the course of action to be taken after the
decision is taken.

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 • More people, more ideas, better decision.
• A group decision gains greater group commitment since
everyone has his/her share in the decision making.
• Group decisions absorb a strong sense of group strength
amongst the group members and assist the group to think jointly
in language of success as well as failure.

Do you think there is such a thing as a “team player”

What are the behaviors of such a person?

What is a team?

“A group whose individual efforts result in performance that is greater

than the sum of the individual inputs”

Not every employee is a team player gave the opportunity to many

employees will select themselves out of team participation. When
people would prefer to work alone are required to team up there is a
direct threat to the team’s moral and to individual member
satisfaction. This suggests that when selecting team members.
Individual preference should be considered as along with abilities,
personality and skill. High performing teams are likely to be composed
of people who prefer working as part of a group.
This suggests that when selecting team members. Individual
preference should be considered as along with abilities, personality and
skill. High performing teams are likely to be composed of people who
prefer working as part of a group.
Now the team performance is based on the knowledge, skills, and
abilities of team player or its individual member. That is fact that we
occasionally read about an athletic team composed of mediocre players
who, because of excellent coaching, determination, and precision
teamwork, beat a far more talented group of players, but such cases
make the news precisely because they represent an aberration.
To perform effectively a team player requires three difference types of
skills first is technical expertise second is he has the problem solving
and decision making skills and thirdly he has the other interpersonal
skills.
As per as the behavior is concern it significantly influence on individual
employee this can also extended to team behavior.

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