It’s the individual factors within each member of a group that make or break a team. Factors such as motivation, personality and values are what influence other members of the group to achieve organisational goals. How the individual characteristics are utilised by each team member to achieve organisational success are the team dynamics. Whether or not they are helpful or harmful is a different story. Team members need to learn to not ‘put aside their differences’ and work, but to come together with each of their differences to form a better team. All teams have their initial complications, but learning about one another’s differences and overcoming them is what makes an effective team. Heterogeneous teams are more affective as they provide a comprehensive look on ideas; offer multiple outlooks on situations this is due to everybody’s diverse background and knowledge from their previous working role, age, gender, cultural background and experiences. (Thompson)
Individually everyone possesses a sure amount of motivation to complete his or her work. Everybody wants to get their work done in time, finish tasks earlier then their deadlines, put in the extra effort to complete a goal, however individual motivation isn’t always present in times of need; where an employee can be feeling down and unenthusiastic about accomplishing a task and in this case where there is no one else relying on that person or pushing that person to complete that task it may not get done to their best of their ability or may not get done at all. This is when team motivation is more affective as the team member’s work interdependently off one another in their need to achieve common goals. Working collaboratively alongside one another employees form a bond and are motivated to succeed in the goals that have been given to them in the groups to which they belong (McShane & Von Glinow 2013) When