Team Case Study

1. How might different aspects of teams and teamwork contribute to team members thinking about quitting their jobs?

First of all, working on unproductive teams could possibly increase an employee’s thoughts of leaving their current job. Unsuccessful and ineffective teams have the potential of creating a sense of frustration and cause stress levels to increase within the members of the team. Ineffective teams can create a sense of distrust in management or feelings that management does not care about you. In order to avoid these poor management mistakes and downfalls, effective managers must ensure that their employees stay motivated by having measurable objectives (SMART Goals) that dovetail into the team goals. In doing so will ensure that their individual contributions will directly influence the teams’ results. Furthermore, managers striving to have top-performing groups/teams need to motivate group members to work toward the achievement of organizational goals and reduce social loafing, the perception of inequity within a team can lead to disgruntled

Lastly, they improved on highlighting career possibilities for current employees and encouraged “stretch” assignments. These stretch assignments encourage employees to grow by putting them in uncomfortable, but challenging positions. This developmental consideration has given employees opportunities to understand other parts of the business and ultimately a chance to grow and excel at their jobs. These actions that were implemented by Box; increased cohesiveness amongst employees, it gave them a career map and opened new opportunities within the company. These changes make employees aware of how important their current job is and while increasing their feelings of value to the