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Team Building
Team work is recognized more as a collaborative effort by the members for the mutual
benefits of corporation and organization employee relations resulted as cooperation among the
team members. This signifies the role of effective team and its performance inside the
organizational premises. Team work defines the harmony and patience essential to be present in
members for the reason of achieving goals in association with team.
Team Building and Conflict Resolution
Conflicts reflect the difference in the opinions and ideas that may arise among the group
members either due to any cultural barrier or any other workplace hatred due to unequal
distribution of power and recognition for performance. Therefore it shows that individual work
related activities are subject to give raise to conflicts due to above stated actions (Maddux &
Wingfield, 2003). However, in any case if it arise, it is better to go for team building strategies
for conflict resolution with minimum emphasis on giving leverage for the expansion and
strengthening of conflict as it may enhance the differences among the employees followed by
decreasing productivity.
Team building exercise that I have chosen for the resolution of conflict inside the
organization is Acid River which is a group based activity in which team members try to solve
a big puzzle under the supervision of a leader with visionary ideas as it requires unique way of
thinking to solve a puzzle. This activity focuses on making all members to think at same pace of
understanding with new ideas to reach the results; hence minimizing the extent of conflict within
the group while performing activity with positive responses and logical explanation to others
views.
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Thesis Statement:
Research can be down specifically to the conflicting resolution by collaborative attitude
building through group activities; making it useful in organization to avoid union based grouping
for the reason of enhancing employee productivity. Thus research statement can be concluded to
team building exercises role in managing conflict with vision of achieving organization goals
through employee involvement in collaborative decisions.
Procedure to Conduct Exercise
When it appears that conflict is generating at root level, for that reason it is better to solve
it with collaborative thinking which enables dissolution of conflict in the organization and makes
the alliance more oriented towards group efforts.
Exercise that I have prescribed would be conducted in a more simple way with proper
objectives to achieve thus requiring the understanding of implications to all involved people.
Employees will be divided in groups randomly; each group will be assigned a task to achieve
(puzzle in this case), they would be provided stuff used to solve the puzzle. Puzzle solving
involves the construction of a hut, creation of a tree house, or creating any other similar thing.
Limited material would be given to teams so that they can show efficient performance and better
utilize the resources. Activity performance will be measured by the time required by the team
and quality of stuff that they would produce. Positive rewards will be given to winning teams in
terms of certificates. Each member will adhere to another team members ideas to carry out the
activity and then coming up with the appropriate decision for next step to perform the activity;
series of collaborative decisions will produce the better result.
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Team Building Exercise Outcome
The exercise mainly focuses on involvement of team members in the task by setting
individual differences apart that give rise to conflict. When people will work like a team; and
their efforts will be recognized by every member of team, they will try to find the reason which
prompt conflicting behavior and will try to solve it on their own before expressing it negatively.
This shows that people try to depress and eliminate their negative feelings when working in a
team; therefore providing convenient ways to organizational management to resolve the conflicts
at group level before it starts affecting the productivity and employee performance.
Team building activities give edge to employees in understanding their subordinates thinking
pattern and try to flourish the tasks with the mutual understanding of behavior therefore
suppressing the conflicts at initial level (ACCEL, 2009). This team building exercise gives each
employee to involve in the decision hence making each member equally responsible for the
outcomes of the decision (Dyer et al., 2007). Positively rewarding each employee for his work
performance and ideas enables the superiority for recognition of employee role in the team
suggesting the ways for achievement of power and lead configuring a persons attitude as a
leader hence making his visionary role transform according to the situation for depicting equal
share of understanding both aspects.
Conclusion
The overall activity outcome signifies each employees role in solving conflict through
teamwork enabling the organization atmosphere to synchronize the conflict effect by
coordinating activity procedure among the employees making it productive while reducing the
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barriers that influence on the decisions. The main outcome of the team building exercise makes it
simple to resolve conflict as team work performance is being monitored and employees are being
rewarded for their actions of achievement, hence when working together as team individual
differences are suppressed as main focus is on team achievement rather than raising conflicts;
thus making it of same preference for each member to understand thinking pattern and sub-
ordinate behavior according to his personality making it judgmental to ideas and views in
organization atmosphere.
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References
Books
Dyer, William. G. Schein, Edgar. H. Dyer, Jeffrey. H. (2007). Team building: proven strategies
for improving team performance. Edition: 4. Published by John Wiley and Sons.
Maddux, Robert. B. Wingfield, Barb. (2003). Team Building: An Exercise in Leadership.
Edition: 4. Published by Cengage Learning.
Website
ACCEL Team Development. (2009). Team Building. Retrieved August 18, 2009 from
http://www.accel-team.com/team_building/index.html
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