Teamwork Reflection

Over the past seven weeks of being enrolled in the Team Leadership class, I have learned about the principles of teamwork and how the role of leadership in teams and Ethics in the Workplace can have a negative or positive effect on the team. In this summary paper, I’m going to be discussing teamwork theories in my workplace. The effectiveness of a team doesn’t happens through magical means. In this first section, my discussion will focus on the role of leadership within teams in any organization. The team leaders play important roles in directing the team members and inspiring them to stay on the right path. In every organization, having people to lead is a necessity. The aims and purposes of the team are established by the leader(s), and

Everyone were at peace with one another, leaders were looked upon as our role models, and mentors. They did all they could in getting us to come closer to them, and help one another. They would step in to help us when it was necessary. We had a stronger team that was built on us, not self, and we were never left alone to fail. We hope every day that those type of leaders were still at our organization. Just last week, one of our co-workers was given his annual review, and he was given scores that were way below the scores of the average poor performing employee. The review was done by his direct report who only interact with him at least for two minutes on the daily basis. The comments in his review did not reflect the kind of employee he is. The bad review was only given because he wasn’t one of the employees that is favor by the

Our overall behaviors in the workplace can create a healthy or unhealthy working environment. In our organization, the behaviors of our leaders such as, not rewarding high performing employees, treating employees differently, and lack of mutual respect toward employees are making it impossible for us to reach our organizational goals. Employees feel that leaders do not care about the operations, so they too tend not to care anymore about what goes on in our organization. There have been numerous occasions where employees went to our leaders with concern about the working environment, but nothing is being done to resolve the issues. We hear complaints from customers about the quality of food being brought for sale, the prices, and the need to have different items on the menu. When we inform our leaders, they sometimes say that we love to