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Volume-5, Issue-2, April-2015 International Journal of Engineering and Management Research Page Number: 53-55
The Role of Human Resource Management in Effective Team Building
Vivekananth.P MBA(HRM) 2nd Year, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, INDIA
ABSTRACT goal, they understand the role that they play within the A team is group of people working on a common organization, and they have the proper skills to be goal. A high performance team has high degree of coherence, successful (Anyim 2012). But there is one more thing that cooperation, shared vision, mutual trust and has utmost is crucial for all teams to have if they wish to perform at clarity of its roles and responsibilities.HR Manager plays a their optimal best: a good human resource manager. crucial role in building high performance team, in many cases Human resource managers are the people in the HR manager acts as a catalyst in building team. This paper discusses the role played by the HR manager to build charge of interviewing, recruiting, training, motivating, high yielding teams which is being built on shared rewarding, sanctioning, and terminating employees responsibilities and mutual trust and cooperation. The means (Millmore 2007). One of their most important tasks is to of effective team building by different team building exercises build effective teams for organizations (Mott Community such as games, fun exercises and group activities also College 2012). There is no single way for creating a team, discussed. but there is a specific framework that human resource managers need to abide by in order to ensure a high Keywords—human resource manager, team, team performance team. In particular, this team would consist of building, team activities individuals with specific sets of skills and who play different important roles in order to keep an organization functioning. But more than that, high performance teams have members who share the same vision and a mutual I. INTRODUCTION trust with each another (Kornbluh 1984). In order for a team to even accomplish a single thing, they need to be In recent years, globalization has seen some of its able to cooperate because each member is important (NL highest peaks. Numerous international companies have 2013). Cooperation is when every piece of the been on the rise and are still continuing to grow. Even non- machinery—or every member of the team—is doing what profit multi-national organizations are increasing in it is supposed to do. And the battery that keeps the whole effectiveness, visibility, and over-all productivity (Liu, thing going is the human resource manager. Combs, Ketchen, and Ireland 2007). However, behind the billion-dollar corporations and the life-changing charitable organizations are countless teams who all work together II. BUILDING A TEAM towards a common goal. Without effective teams, there wouldn’t be effective organizations. The people, after all, Great human resource managers know that are the backbone of every organization. In this regard, building an effective team starts in recruitment. This is the what they need is a human resource manager who knows phase where human resource managers select the people how to build quality teams and maintain those teams that would comprise a team (Hutchings 2011). For HR (Odell 2013). managers, this is not as easy as selecting the people based Teams always vary, considering that there is no on who the most intelligent, the bravest, the most such thing as one perfect team. A few examples of teams hardworking, or most punctual is. Instead, what great HR are functional work teams, project teams, intact work managers do is that they don’t treat individual members as teams, employee participation teams, problem-solving isolated pieces (Porter 2008). They look at members and teams, management teams, and maintenance or support see them as a piece of a puzzle. Not all of them need to be teams (Al-Khaled 2013). The only similarities that all the best at what they do; they just need to be extremely effective teams have are that they know their common
53 Copyright © 2011-15. Vandana Publications. All Rights Reserved. www.ijemr.net ISSN (ONLINE): 2250-0758, ISSN (PRINT): 2394-6962 compatible with one another in order to create a beautiful IV. OBSTACLE COURSE bigger picture (Gray 2014). A huge aspect of this is chemistry. HR managers One type of team-building activity that HR deal with a lot of searching for chemistry in their job. They managers use is the obstacle course. Obstacle courses do not simply assess a potential member based on their usually include climbing walls, crossing ropes, crawling own qualifications. They also assess how well a potential under nets, and many other difficult tasks (Armstrong and member would work with other members of the team Baron 2002). The main point of these challenging courses (Odina 2013). If there is chemistry then the person would is that they build the character of the members as a whole be recruited. The reason behind this is that even if an HR team. They create a feeling of shared responsibility and manager chooses to recruit all the best people in the cooperation. The responsibility that they all share is that available pool to form one team, if their attitudes or work they must finish the obstacle course within a certain ethics are not compatible with each other then it wouldn’t amount of time. As such, they are encouraged to cooperate be an effective team (Boxall and Purcell 2011). This is with each other in order to overcome any obstacle that why chemistry is essential in the performance of a team. come their way—literally and figuratively. What chemistry does is that it allows people to play on each other’s energies and skills. Teams with the V. TEAM NIGHT right chemistry have members who may not have started as the best but will surely bring out the best in each other Team nights are scheduled nights where the team along the way (Dewhurst, Hancock and Ellsworth 2013). It would go out and have fun together. The activities in these is then up to the HR manager to detect if there is potential team nights could vary from watching movies, having for chemistry when recruiting team members. It is also up dinner out, going swimming, and others. Organizing a to the HR manager to ensure that the potential of the team night once in a while not only promotes team members and the over-all team would not be put to waste. building but also serves as the members’ break from all the How a manager does this is by pointing the team in the hard work they’re doing everyday. It establishes stronger right direction. bonds among the team members and makes going to work In other words, the HR manager is responsible for all the more fun. This is because they get to spend time being able to establish a feeling of shared responsibilities with people whose company they actually enjoy. and mutual trust within the group (Avar, Magos and Salamon 2012). This is one of the top priorities of HR managers because shared responsibilities create such a VI. TRUST FALL strong bond among people. If a group of people fully know and fully understand what their purpose is both within and Trust fall is a team building game that has been outside the team, then they would have a much better idea tried and tested for years. It involves two people; one who on how to go about with life (Nohria, Groysberg and will fall back and one who will catch the other person. It is Linda-Eling 2008). Teams with a heightened awareness of as simple as the second person trying to catch the first shared responsibilities bond over what is needed of them person who is falling. The key here is that the first person by the organization and by the society (International Civil should not hesitate or should not look back to make sure Service Commission 2001). It is then up to the HR that the second person is actually there to catch them. The manager to help the team establish clear cut shared point of this exercise is to build trust among team responsibilities. members. A member should trust the other member enough to believe that the other member will catch their III. TEAM ACTIVITIES fall.
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