Do you trust team-work?
The emphasis on team work has always been largely focused in almost all industries. Many team-work theories are into practice by world renowned organizations e.g. Intel, HP etc. Trust is granted as a key towards product success at almost all stages of ''New Product Development'', Team work refer towards individuals involvement in a certain task via effective brain storming and sharing of ideas. Recent research-work emphasizes on trust existence in knowledge-sharing setups. Researchers are of the view that non-existence of trust may not make sharing of ideas successful. Hence, trust is mandatory to be able to work in a team as it lead towards employees being more productive. Vast amount of literature in sociology and psychology treats trust as a multidimensional concept such as it has both dimensions of affect and cognition.
Can team-work exist in a set-up where the cause and effect is based on evil-structure?
Can team-work exist in a set-up where the cause and effect is based on evil-structure?
The evil-structure is such like where if you put greater amounts of lie, dishonesty, destructive-thinking, injustice, brutality into your work; you will get greater intrinsic and extrinsic rewards such like promotions, recognition, pious titles, tax relaxations, governmental support and so on.
The originality of the team-work would vanish if
the individuals with evil intentions and behavior execute their daily tasks. But
its of a great significance to explore if individuals with evil intentions do understand the essence of a team work. Its interesting to see that if they really do understand it then how
do they actually follow or implement it.
How could team-work be like in an evil-structure?
How could team-work be like in an evil-structure?
Lets consider example of an organization which is based on an evil structure. An organization where injustice defeat justice, where recognition is awarded to individuals who win by organizational politics and where there is excessive corruption. So let suppose that organization is a university where where one department is responsible to conduct internationally-approved tests. A team is organized to initiate this task. To document a complete procedure, manager assigns task to an employee ''A'' to organize a meeting with his team to have a discussion on increasing prospective student’s applications for the test.
During the discussion session; team members talk about ways to attract number of prospective students. However, team member ''B'' shares a problem they might face. He shares that gaing maximum number of students is difficult because there are number of other test organizers in the same region who have better quality record. Therefore, it might not be easy to beat competitors. Another team member jumps in and gives a solution. He says that if we give some incentive to prospective students they might register with us; for example providing help to students during the test. Maximum number of team members agree to this idea. However, team member ''C'' calls this idea as unfair and illegal. All team members try to convince him that increase in student’s applications will eventually leads to your own increase in salary and you will be given commission and many other incentives. They further explain that its really easy to hide illegal activities. Team member ''C'' still remain unconvinved and shows his disagreement. Eventually, he was asked by the management either to be part of it or to quit the job. Unfortunately, he did not fit in the evil structure and ended up loosing his job. However, rest of the team members carried on with their task and worked excessively to attract prospective students by mentioning that help would be provided during the test.
There are number of things we can observe from such an example. Team members worked and accomplished the task. However, their motivation behind the task was quick and excessive money. Team members of an evil structure do realize how to help other member of the same mind-set. Evil-ideas are shared with honesty and evil behaviors are performed with excessive hard work . This indicates that team work does not really require honest intentions. They may have been addressed as winners but brought some serious negative impacts on humanity. Team members in an evil structure contributed towards university's well-being and society as a whole. Their contributions mainly include:
During the discussion session; team members talk about ways to attract number of prospective students. However, team member ''B'' shares a problem they might face. He shares that gaing maximum number of students is difficult because there are number of other test organizers in the same region who have better quality record. Therefore, it might not be easy to beat competitors. Another team member jumps in and gives a solution. He says that if we give some incentive to prospective students they might register with us; for example providing help to students during the test. Maximum number of team members agree to this idea. However, team member ''C'' calls this idea as unfair and illegal. All team members try to convince him that increase in student’s applications will eventually leads to your own increase in salary and you will be given commission and many other incentives. They further explain that its really easy to hide illegal activities. Team member ''C'' still remain unconvinved and shows his disagreement. Eventually, he was asked by the management either to be part of it or to quit the job. Unfortunately, he did not fit in the evil structure and ended up loosing his job. However, rest of the team members carried on with their task and worked excessively to attract prospective students by mentioning that help would be provided during the test.
There are number of things we can observe from such an example. Team members worked and accomplished the task. However, their motivation behind the task was quick and excessive money. Team members of an evil structure do realize how to help other member of the same mind-set. Evil-ideas are shared with honesty and evil behaviors are performed with excessive hard work . This indicates that team work does not really require honest intentions. They may have been addressed as winners but brought some serious negative impacts on humanity. Team members in an evil structure contributed towards university's well-being and society as a whole. Their contributions mainly include:
-Increase in students’ applications
-Increase in profit
-Increase in university’s ranking
-Increase in profit
-Increase in university’s ranking
-Increase in positive feedback by the students
-Increase in evil contribution towards society
-Increase in oppressing the minority rights
-Increase in oppressing the hardworking students appeared during the test
-Increase in oppressing the hardworking and honest employees
-Increase in creation of lobbies
-Increase in back-stabbing and politics
-Increase in creation of lobbies
-Increase in back-stabbing and politics
