Team work
Introduction
Teamwork is a situation where people cooperate to meet common goals (Dinsmore and Brewin 151). In teamwork, people are able to exchange useful aspects that are necessary for the accomplishment of the organizational goals. For instance, the staff gets a chance to exchange information, opinions as well as useful ideas. This improves the performance of a group. Through teamwork, the employees’ productivity is increased significantly. The human resource management is all about maximum utilization of the available human resource. Many organizations in the tourism and hospitality industry consist of people who are engaged in group work. Many job tasks are becoming more and more complex and specialized which raises a need for employees to work together effectively within their teams as well as across the teams (Kusluvan 693).It is the role of the human resource managers to ensure that they get the best results from their human resources.
The structure of teams in Tourism and Hospitality( The structure of a team is very important as it defines how each functional area will work together and who shows up for reviews, who works with whom, who manages changes and when or how often the meetings are held (Brown, Huettner and Tanny 43).
In the tourism and hospitality industry, teamwork is very common in execution of day to day activities. Team work becomes very important when the technology or operating process require interaction between the people carrying out different functions (Kusluvan 700). In the modern world, technology has significantly advanced and therefore a need for teamwork. The team structure in the tourism and hospitality industry is based on the departments. Each department has its own teams which are meant to assist in meeting the departmental goals. For instance, some
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