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Team effectiveness: A team is effective when it benefits the organization, its members, and its own

survival. Team effectiveness is beneficial for the organisational growth as:


First, teams exist to serve some organizational purpose, so effectiveness is partly measured
by the achievement of those objectives.
Second, a teams effectiveness relies on the satisfaction and well-being of its members.
People join groups to fulfil their personal needs, so effectiveness is partly measured by this
need fulfilment.
Finally, team effectiveness includes the teams viabilityits ability to survive. It must be able
to maintain the commitment of its members, particularly during the turbulence of the
teams development. Without this commitment, people leave and the team will fall apart.
The team must also secure sufficient resources and find a benevolent environment in which to
operate.

There are 4 stages of group development
The Forming Storming Norming Performing model of group development was first
proposed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965, who maintained that these phases are all necessary and
inevitable in order for the team to grow, to face up to challenges, to tackle problems, to find
solutions, to plan work, and to deliver results. This model has become the basis for subsequent
models.

Coming to the case the barriers to team effectiveness can be seen from many instances.
The following barriers can be noted in relation to the case
Discomfort with differences:
In this, group members are not comfortable with addition of new member, who is quite different on
any of the dimension like age, knowledge etc.
Biases against the unfamiliar:
Any member of a group or a team is not ready to accept the new entrant due to unfamiliarity with
the new member.
Reinforcing Team Norms:
If one member having in-depth knowledge joins a new group, it is found that putting his own ideas
to the will of the new group can go against him.

In this case, when Simon Fester joins Simmons Labs, he displays his knowledge and give new depth
to the research work that is being carried out at the lab, but is not taken sportingly by the team and
also the leader. As it is felt that he has started to show his knowledge in the research field and all the
team members are not fully aware of the work done by him
Here, in this particular case the team directly starts with Performing phase instead of starting from
the 1
st
stage of group formation as an addition of a new member was there.

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