Psy 435 Week 5 Team Assignmet
Leadership and Performance
Angela Hood, Joyce Frink, Tandy Noonan, Jodie Bowes, Velinda Chandler, Lisa Sotiropoulos
PSY 435
May 14, 2012
Henry Wallace
Leadership and Performance Organizational and Industrial (I/O) psychology is used to improve different types of organizational functions. When tasks and employee relationships are not working properly within a company production and profit will be compromised. Some of the issues that I/O manages addresses include poor work habits and dysfunctional work relationships. The following will address group and team concepts that could be implemented to improve performance and diversity, leadership theories that can improve the relationship between management and floor workers, the influence and power of the management and how it affects the workplace, and the difference between leadership and management. Group and Team Concepts In an effort to improve the relations between the factory workers and management staff organizational development should be implemented. Organizational development (OD) is a family of techniques designed to help organizations change for the better (Spector, 2008 p.2). The entire organization is involved in the assessment of the factory’s operation as it would entail re-organization, creating new departments, and allocating the functions of the workers. Before any change can be implemented the factory should utilize a successful change agent which would be responsible for over-seeing sessions between groups. One of the tasks of the change agent would be to create a desire among the factory workers to accept any changes. There are many concepts that may be utilized in order to bring about changes among the workers and management such as cohesiveness throughout the factory. Cohesiveness results in greater interaction between members, mutual help and social interaction, lower turnover and absenteeism, and often higher production (Mullins, L. J. 2005, p.1). Creating successful
Angela Hood, Joyce Frink, Tandy Noonan, Jodie Bowes, Velinda Chandler, Lisa Sotiropoulos
PSY 435
May 14, 2012
Henry Wallace
Leadership and Performance Organizational and Industrial (I/O) psychology is used to improve different types of organizational functions. When tasks and employee relationships are not working properly within a company production and profit will be compromised. Some of the issues that I/O manages addresses include poor work habits and dysfunctional work relationships. The following will address group and team concepts that could be implemented to improve performance and diversity, leadership theories that can improve the relationship between management and floor workers, the influence and power of the management and how it affects the workplace, and the difference between leadership and management. Group and Team Concepts In an effort to improve the relations between the factory workers and management staff organizational development should be implemented. Organizational development (OD) is a family of techniques designed to help organizations change for the better (Spector, 2008 p.2). The entire organization is involved in the assessment of the factory’s operation as it would entail re-organization, creating new departments, and allocating the functions of the workers. Before any change can be implemented the factory should utilize a successful change agent which would be responsible for over-seeing sessions between groups. One of the tasks of the change agent would be to create a desire among the factory workers to accept any changes. There are many concepts that may be utilized in order to bring about changes among the workers and management such as cohesiveness throughout the factory. Cohesiveness results in greater interaction between members, mutual help and social interaction, lower turnover and absenteeism, and often higher production (Mullins, L. J. 2005, p.1). Creating successful