Teamwork is recognized more as a collaborative effort by the members for the mutual benefits of the corporation and the organization’s employee relations resulted as cooperation among the team members. This signifies the role of an effective team and its performance inside the organizational premises. Teamwork defines the harmony and patience essential to be present in members for the reason of achieving goals in association with the team.
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 rise to conflicts due to the above-stated actions (Maddux & Wingfield, 2003). However, in any case, if it arises, 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 a unique way of thinking to solve a puzzle. This activity focuses on making all members think at the same pace of understanding with new ideas to reach the results; hence minimizing the extent of conflict within the group while performing an activity with positive responses and logical explanations to others’ views.
Research can be down specifically to the conflicting resolution by collaborative attitude building through group activities; making it useful in the 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 the vision of achieving organization goals through employee involvement in collaborative decisions.
When it appears that conflict is generating at the 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 more simply with proper objectives to achieve thus requiring the understanding of implications to all involved people. Employees will be divided into groups randomly; each group will be assigned a task to achieve (a 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 treehouse, 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 the 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 member’s ideas to carry out the activity and then coming up with the appropriate decision for the next step to perform the activity; series of collaborative decisions will produce a better result.
The exercise mainly focuses on the involvement of team members in the task by setting individual differences apart that give rise to conflict. When people will work as a team, and their efforts will be recognized by every member of a team, they will try to find the reason which prompts 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 the edge to employees in understanding their subordinate’s thinking pattern and try to flourish the tasks with the mutual understanding of behavior, therefore, suppressing the conflicts at the 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 person’s attitude as a leader hence making his visionary role transform according to the situation for depicting equal share of understanding both aspects.
The overall activity outcome signifies each employee’s role in solving conflict through teamwork enabling the organization’s atmosphere to synchronize the conflict effect by coordinating activity procedures among the employees making it productive while reducing the barriers that influence the decisions. The main outcome of the team-building exercise makes it simple to resolve conflict as teamwork 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 the 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.
References
- ACCEL Team Development. (2009). Team Building.
- 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.