TITLE:
Study on the Effects of Work Teams on Human Resources Excellence
AUTHORS:
Ebrahim Kalani, Ehsan Kamrani
KEYWORDS:
Work Teams, Team Structure, Leadership, Mutual Support, Control, Communication, Human Resources Excellence
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Human Resource and Sustainability Studies,
Vol.5 No.1,
February
27,
2017
ABSTRACT: The conception and use of work teams have been one of the main
subjects of management researches for the last few decades and in the past
years many developments have happened in the kinds and usage of them, which have improved the condition of
organizations and human resources management. Our objective in this paper is to
observe the formation of work teams and how they affect human resources
excellence. Finding new and creative solutions for today’s intricate situations is
becoming more and more difficult and employees can’t solve them on their own
anymore and this shows and bolds the importance of teamwork and forming work
teams. The main objective however in this paper is to evaluate the effect of 5
main characteristics of work teams (which are team structure, leadership,
control, mutual support and communication) on the 3 main characteristics of
human resources excellence (which are delegation, motivation and team work) in
Torang Darya Shipping Company. To do so, 200 personnel at the department were
randomly selected from 450 personnel by Cochran sample size formula and
answered to the research made questionnaire derived from[1][2] and[3]. The content validity of the questionnaire has been confirmed by the
experts and academicians and the reliability has also been confirmed by
Chornbach’s
alpha. Its value was obtained as 84.0%. The data were analyzed by bi-variable linear regression
test and the findings indicated that team structure, leadership, control and
communication affect meaningfully on human resources excellence but mutual
support doesn’t have meaningful effect on human resources excellence.