In this post, I would like to give some information about working in a way that is effective and efficient. When we are talking about work, there are a lot of considerations need to be thought. Leadership and teamwork are two out of many aspects that are needed to produce excellent work. I will begin my explanation with leaderships. What is the meaning of leaderships actually? Basically, there are many definition related to this word. Leadership can be defined as a process of establishing direction for a group, gaining members’ commitments and motivating them to achieve goals. Other than that, Hemphills and Coons (1957), stated the meaning of leadership as the behaviour of an individual directing the activities of a group, towards a shared goals. Rauch and Behling (1984), gave other meaning but related; The process of influencing the activities of organized group towards goal achievements. The last but not least is the definition given by Jacobs and Jaques (1990), a process of giving purpose to collective effort and causing a willing effort to be expected to achieve purpose. Leader is a very important person in all organizations. Without leader, the goals or aim of a team or group cannot be formed and developed and the activities cannot be synchronized effectively. There are many characteristics of successful leader, and I would like to mention 9 traits of effective leader that are motivation, flexibility, intelligent, sensitivity to others, stability, self-confident, dominance, high energy and locus of control.
In the first paragraph, I have mentioned some definition of leadership that consistently mentioned about group. What is group? Is there any different between group and team? A team is something more complex than group according to Weaver, 2008. Group is any collection of people that interacts each other because perceived themselves as having similar purposes or similar interests (Martin and Henderson, 2001). The names mentioned in previous sentence had added other elaboration about team; team is a group of with a sense of common goal or task, the pursuit of which requires collaboration and coordination of its members’ activities, who have regular and frequent interactions with one another. In order to clarify the difference between those terms, I will use one example. Let’s take Facebook as an example. There are thousands or perhaps millions of groups in this social networking program. If we join any group, we do not have any responsibility for that group. We can be either active participants or passive in which we do not do anything for contributing to that group but we join because we are interested in something and shared common interests with them. Team is different than this condition because as a part of team, you need to make decisions, take actions and agree with resolution which that would not have had to do as individuals. In a team, different organizations and professionals shared a common endeavour and act in different ways but expected to work efficiently together towards cooperation, collaboration and good coordination. One of the examples that can be mentioned here is rehabilitative team for disaster management. This team basically consists of 6 domains that have different educational and professional backgrounds but have the responsibility to work together, so that the goals can be achieved. This team consists of medical and paramedical staffs, local authorities, orthotists and prosthetists, NGOs, relatives and neighbours as well as the patients themselves.
In conclusion, teamwork is a very important concept to be understood. So, everyone in the team knows about their specific roles and responsibilities. Together with the leadership concept, it would produce more efficient and more effective coordination and collaboration.
In the first paragraph, I have mentioned some definition of leadership that consistently mentioned about group. What is group? Is there any different between group and team? A team is something more complex than group according to Weaver, 2008. Group is any collection of people that interacts each other because perceived themselves as having similar purposes or similar interests (Martin and Henderson, 2001). The names mentioned in previous sentence had added other elaboration about team; team is a group of with a sense of common goal or task, the pursuit of which requires collaboration and coordination of its members’ activities, who have regular and frequent interactions with one another. In order to clarify the difference between those terms, I will use one example. Let’s take Facebook as an example. There are thousands or perhaps millions of groups in this social networking program. If we join any group, we do not have any responsibility for that group. We can be either active participants or passive in which we do not do anything for contributing to that group but we join because we are interested in something and shared common interests with them. Team is different than this condition because as a part of team, you need to make decisions, take actions and agree with resolution which that would not have had to do as individuals. In a team, different organizations and professionals shared a common endeavour and act in different ways but expected to work efficiently together towards cooperation, collaboration and good coordination. One of the examples that can be mentioned here is rehabilitative team for disaster management. This team basically consists of 6 domains that have different educational and professional backgrounds but have the responsibility to work together, so that the goals can be achieved. This team consists of medical and paramedical staffs, local authorities, orthotists and prosthetists, NGOs, relatives and neighbours as well as the patients themselves.
In conclusion, teamwork is a very important concept to be understood. So, everyone in the team knows about their specific roles and responsibilities. Together with the leadership concept, it would produce more efficient and more effective coordination and collaboration.
References:
1.Rai, F. 2009. Leadership and Motivation among Health Care Staff. (online accessed on December 4th 2010)
URL: http://www.gfmer.ch/GFMER_members/pdf/Leadership_motivation_Fuad_Rai_2009.pdf
2. Tzenalis, A. Sotiriadou, C. 2010. Health Promotion as Multi-professional and Multi-disciplinary Work. (online accessed on December 4th 2010)
URL: http://www.caringsciences.org/volume003/issue2/Vol3_Issue2_01_Tzenalis.pdf
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