Essay : Team context, team design, and team performance and productivity.

Select an article that is relevant to this week’s topic. Research, critique and discuss this article in the light of our topic.
Submit this review on a two-page MS Word Document to the assignment section no later than the end of the course week. APA formatting is required. The title page and the reference page do not count toward the two pages. There is an announcement posted on how to write an article review/critique. Please let me know if you have any questions. This weeks material is as follows:
This week we will examine team context, team design, and team performance and productivity. Team context may not be a concept that is readily familiar. However, once you review what it entails, you will find that you have worked within a team context. Think about the way you communicate with and outside the team, the motivation drivers established for the team, and any training needed to participate on the team. Any or all of these may be ways you established context with the team.
Team design may be done well or may be haphazard. This could be due to the lack of knowledge on the team lead. There are several different team designs and some are designed for certain functions. When you read about the various types of teams you will see that there is some overlap as well. Finally, team performance and productivity are what leadership wants from a team. However, team context and team design are integral to team performance and productivity. Think about teams where you have been a member. Was it productivity? Were communications well defined? Was the team productivity? Think about these things when you read the lecture, the supplemental readings and view the You Tubes.
This week’s lecture covers three main topics:
Team Context
Team Design
Team Performance and Productivity

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Article Review
Team building is critical to the overall performance of an organization. Therefore, it involves various actions that are focused on enhancing productivity as well as the performance of a team or workgroups. The primary aim of team-building is to boost individual employee performance, ensure effective communication with the workforce, and promote the capability of working together to address organizational issues. This paper provides a critique of the article “Towards effective team building in the workplace” by Fapohunda Tinuke in…