Team Building Article Critique

Team Building Article Critique
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Team Building Article Critique
Introduction
The first authors of the article are Katherine L. Yeager and Fredrick M. Nafukho, Texas, USA. The authors' title is developing varied teams to improve performance in the tourism industry setting. The author's main points are the purpose of teams in Organizations in line with the current changes in globalization, inhabitants’ changes, and retiring staff, especially among developed nations, which makes team building to be complicated. The aim of their writing is primary to explore the topic of team range and its performance improvement. The authors have shown how individuals in a tourism industry can become successful team members, despite their various characteristics such as in ethnicity, period, job experience, environment and values (Boss, 1978). The thesis statement of the article places into interest the diversity issues related to individual differences that underlie team formation and gives strategies needed to make effective teams.
The purpose of the article
According to the authors, Katherine L.Yeager, and Fredrick M. Nafukho, Organizations have continued to depend on teams within an Organization to achieve its set goals through improved work performance. Teams have therefore been seen as organizational building blocks. Tourism organizations need to expand into global market challenges companies to structure teams with culturally diverse human resources (Boss, 1978). Thus, organizations need to address the varied team dynamics, required for their improved performance.
The diversity within the organization includes the external and internal differences such as educational background, creativity, problem-solving skills, and understanding. These multiplicities in diversity among the work team influence the organizational performance. As a consequence, a broader classification of diversity reinforces the development of this article.
The research seeks to explain the effects of team diversity on team effectiveness and performance (Buller, & Bell, 1986). Team performance explains the ability of an organization to achieve its goals. Knowledge of how to build more performing teams of diverse individuals will make a constructive contribution to the general capability of organizations. To support the authors writing, social comparison theory was used to explain the team development, as human beings have inborn desires to explain their opinions and views. According to Festinger, people choose comparative references that are not supposed as too different and are fascinated to situations where others contribute to the similar abilities and opinions.
In other words, if members of a group disagree on a given issue, then their opinions differ. Therefore, it will need to take action to address the perceived differences, to avoid hostilities. This theory postulates that members should first perform self-assessment before changing or joining a given group. In agreement with diversity context, groups are categorized as; work teams, who are usually production oriented, for example within the tourism industry, this consists of the air hostesses and crew. The parallel team that co...