Plan to foster growth and development of groups

            The team is going to be a big team since the company is growing rapidly.  The fact that the whole team is made up of minor teams that are referred to as cliques such as the productivity team, a gaming team, a mobile team and other teams, this shows that the team is a large team. These sub groups are within the large group and share the same goals, values and expectations.  The main aim of forming these teams is for the business to perform effectively, groups have always been necessary in order to complete certain tasks (Hughes et al., 2015). In our organization certain groups will be responsible in developing different software. The tasks carried out in the organization are likely to be additive tasks, where the output of one group will be combined with the output of another groups in order to complete a certain task. The roles of the groups are going to be task roles where the group members are expected to finish tasks assigned to them.

            Social facilitation will occur in the sense that the employees will increase their performance since they are made to be part of a group and they actually feel that their individual contribution matters. Social loafing is not likely to occur since the groups will not be too large that the members are not familiar with each other thus they will not feel less responsible for the performance of the group. Training of the team member is highly needed in order for the team to perform effectively (Hughes et al., 2015). Also recognizing the efforts of the team members individually and as a team will help in increasing their performance.

            Facilitating trust among the group members will be very important. Trust is important and contributes to cohesion which is the glue that hold the team members together and creates a sense of belonging. When group members trust each other, it becomes easy for them to form an interpersonally connection (Hughes, et al., 2015). Trust is the distinguishing factor between transformational leaders and charismatic leaders. In order to foster trust among the group members leaders will have to be trained to be true transformational leaders who will establish trust by taking into account the values of all the group members instead of forcing their own value on the group members. Also, the leaders will have to behave in an ethical manner in order to build trust among them and the group members. Trust among the group members will also be enhanced when the group leaders show much knowledge and expertise on the subjects and projects that will be discussed in the groups (Hughes, et al., 2015). Trust is not something that is developed at once but something that develops overtime.

            To increase the group’s performance, they need to be motivated. The first approach of motivating the group members is Needs approach which can be done through Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs where the needs of the group members will be organized in the shape of a pyramid starting with physiological needs and moves upward to other needs that are not extreme (Feist, Feist, & Roberts, 2013).  The second step of motivation is Empowerment which will include the group leaders handing over the responsibility of overseeing minor tasks to other employees while they focus on other larger tasks. Managing the groups will be done through the group leaders who will be in charge of critically evaluating the all the group members. In order to effectively manage the groups, the groups will be occasionally be subdivided into sub groups (Janis, 1983).

 

 

 

 

 

References

Feist, J., Feist, G. J., Roberts, T. A. (2013). Theories of personality (8th ed.). New York, NY:         McGraw-Hill.

Hughes, R. L., Ginnett, R. C., & Curphy, G. J. (2015). Leadership: Enhancing the lesson of          experience. New York: McGraw-Hill

Janis, I. L., (1983). Groupthink: Psychological studies of policy decisions and fiascoes. Boston,      MA: Houghton Mifflin.