Impact of teamwork on person s organizations
Running head: IMPACT OF TEAMWORK ON PERSONS ORGANIZATIONS
Impact of teamwork on person’s organizations
Yanting Xie
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of
Master of Business Administration
Concordia University Wisconsin
November 21, 2014/11/22
There is a story of an old African king who called his people to his side and gave them a short, sturdy stick. The king instructed them to break the stick. With little effort, they all snapped their sticks in half. “This is how it is when a soul is alone without anyone. It can be easily broken.” The king then gave everyone another stick, and said, “This is how I would like you to live after I pass. Put your sticks together in bundles of twos and threes. Now, break these bundles in half.” The people surrounding the king followed his instructions and tried to break the bundles. But they failed. “No one can break the sticks when there are two or more in a bundle,” said the king. “We are strong when we stand with another soul. When we are with another, we cannot be broken.”(Teamwork makes organizations unbreakable: [FINAL HOME EDITION], 2003) terrific parable
Teamwork makes two or more individuals join together working hard to solve problems or achieving one same goal. However, when people with different backgrounds, experiences, age, attitudes, and skills tied up altogether to achieve shared goals, they inevitably disagree. Such disagreement is a normal process in team-building but when it shows up and spills over into conflict, it brings about a negative emotion and it is damaging to team reliance and effectiveness. This is a biggest problem while individuals are playing roles in a team. This happened once in my life while I was in university in China. I was a choir member of the university and the leaders gave tasks about what to perform in University Final Show to us, we were separated into two teams to give list of shows in a week. I was in the team whose members are all
Impact of teamwork on person’s organizations
Yanting Xie
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of
Master of Business Administration
Concordia University Wisconsin
November 21, 2014/11/22
There is a story of an old African king who called his people to his side and gave them a short, sturdy stick. The king instructed them to break the stick. With little effort, they all snapped their sticks in half. “This is how it is when a soul is alone without anyone. It can be easily broken.” The king then gave everyone another stick, and said, “This is how I would like you to live after I pass. Put your sticks together in bundles of twos and threes. Now, break these bundles in half.” The people surrounding the king followed his instructions and tried to break the bundles. But they failed. “No one can break the sticks when there are two or more in a bundle,” said the king. “We are strong when we stand with another soul. When we are with another, we cannot be broken.”(Teamwork makes organizations unbreakable: [FINAL HOME EDITION], 2003) terrific parable
Teamwork makes two or more individuals join together working hard to solve problems or achieving one same goal. However, when people with different backgrounds, experiences, age, attitudes, and skills tied up altogether to achieve shared goals, they inevitably disagree. Such disagreement is a normal process in team-building but when it shows up and spills over into conflict, it brings about a negative emotion and it is damaging to team reliance and effectiveness. This is a biggest problem while individuals are playing roles in a team. This happened once in my life while I was in university in China. I was a choir member of the university and the leaders gave tasks about what to perform in University Final Show to us, we were separated into two teams to give list of shows in a week. I was in the team whose members are all
References: Mackay, Harvey. (2003, Nov 30). Teamwork makes organizations unbreakable. Tulsa World, pp. E7. West, Michael A. (Ed.). (2012, January). Effective Teamwork: Practical Lessons from Organizational Research. John Wiley & Sons. Yanting, Terrific paper. I have highlighted a few issues concerning word selection and sentence structure that may help with future papers. Otherwise, a very good paper. 29 points Pat