The Constraints and Problems in Team Performance Management

• Authors: Wojciech Ulrych

Title variants

PL

Ograniczenia i problemy w zarządzaniu efektywnością zespołów

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A wide range of factors can affect team performance: setting clear and achievable goals, allocating individual work, utilizing an individual’s skills, monitoring performance, maintaining team cohesion and identity, being able to handle internal conflicts, maintaining relationships with other teams, systems and resources available to teams and the quality of leadership. These problems and constraints affecting team performance management (TPM) are found on a global scale irrespective of a country’s individual work culture. This paper presents the nature of team performance management in order to discuss common TPM problems and constraints in the context of worldwide research findings. Environmental factors and team dynamics consistently influence team effectiveness. It is now clear that there is a need for future research to look at the complexity of team dynamics over time.

PL

Wiele czynników może wpływać na efektywność zespołów: określenie jasnych i możliwych do osiągnięcia celów, indywidualny przydział obowiązków, wykorzystanie umiejętności danej osoby, monitorowanie wydajności, zachowanie spójności i tożsamości zespołu, umiejętność zarządzania wewnętrznymi konfliktami, relacje z innymi zespołami, a także systemy i źródła dostępne zespołom oraz jakość przywództwa. Wskazane problemy i ograniczenia wpływają na zarządzanie zespołową efektywnością i są znane powszechnie bez względu na indywidualną kulturę pracy danego kraju. W niniejszej pracy przedstawiono naturę zarządzania efektywnością pracowników w celu wskazania powszechnych problemów i ograniczeń w zarządzaniu zespołową efektywnością w kontekście światowych wyników badań. Warto zaznaczyć, że czynniki środowiskowe i dynamika zespołu wpływają na zespołową efektywność. We wnioskach wskazuje się, że istnieje potrzeba dalszych badań w zakresie uchwycenia złożoności dynamiki zespołu wraz z upływem czasu.

Keywords

EN

team; performance management; IMO model; constraints; problems

PL

zespół; zarządzanie efektywnością; model IMO; ograniczenia; problemy

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Krakowie
• Journal: Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Krakowie
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 9(933)
• Pages: 95-108

Contributors

author

Wojciech Ulrych

• Uniwersytet Łódzki, Katedra Zarządzania Zasobami Ludzkimi, ul. Matejki 22/26, 90-237 Łódź, Poland

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