THE IMPACT OF TEAM WORK ON ORGANIZATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY

This study reviews the effect of teamwork on organizational productivity. There have been so much emphasis on pride and personal achievement at work place; where by the concept of teamwork seems to be overlooked by managers and employees, due to this, management sees less essence of teamwork as a major tool of performance which has lead them to poor performance and productivity in the industry market. Therefore the study seeks to identify the effect of teamwork on organizational performance. The objective of this study was to identify factors associated with teamwork, identify the positive or negative effects of teamwork on employees and to examine the effect of teamwork on organization performance. This research study analyzes the effect of teamwork on organizational performance on the employees of Guinness Nigeria PLC Benin City. Several measures of team performance were analyzed including team trust, recognition and rewards. Random sampling technique was used to select the employees/respondents who are regular appointees in the organization. A self-structured questionnaire was used in the data collection. Frequency distribution table and the mean (% mean) score method was used to analyze the data collected for this study i.e. when the cut-off point is 2.5 it was considered as agreed. And when it is more than that, it was considered disagreed. There was clear evidence that teamwork and other measures of team performance are positively related with organization performance. The result of the study shows that there was a significant positive impact of teamwork on organizational performance. But in spite of the Effect of teamwork on organizational productivity, teamwork is constraint by issue of conflate arising from misunderstanding among team member, poor or x ineffective communication, inability of team work to harmonize their pace of work and lack of cooperation among some team members arising from their nonchalant attitude