Effective Team Building: Panacea to Organisation Efficiency, Effectiveness, Togetherness, Employee’s Development, and Increased Productivity

Abstract

This paper look at the possibility that effective team building and team work can bring about organisation’s efficiency, effectiveness, sustained performance, and or increase productivity ratio.   Organisations activities are becoming too dynamic and competitive in recent times that the only strategy to actualise and or survive and maintain a competitive edge in this century is the ability to build formidable teams. To many industry experts, teamwork is a part of everyday life; whether it’s at home, in the community or at work, we are often expected to be a functional part of a performing team. Team building involves a wide variety of activities, presented to organisations and aimed at improving team performance. It is a philosophy of job design that sees employees as members of interdependent teams rather than as individual workers. Team building is an important factor in any work community/environment, its focus is to specialise in bringing out the best in a team to ensure self-development, positive communication, leadership skills and the ability to work closely together as a team to solve problems. And, as a response to the prevailing and dynamic nature of change, companies and organisations are having difficulties in achieving sustained performance. They are forced to look for new management approaches to develop a cutting-edge process to deal with existing trends and developments. The effectiveness of organisations accepting and adapting to team spirit will determine the growth, development and the ability to understanding the workings of SWOT matrix for better job performance. In spite of many studies carried out by scholars and practitioners in the area of team building/team work over the years, much still need to be done about team building and factors inhibiting its successes. This paper, however, offers a balanced approach to the relevance of effective team building and or sustaining Nigeria organisations as well as finding ways that will enable it becomes a top-notch team performers in this century and beyond.