Indeed it is. All companies aim for high performance workers to achieve better goal and higher profits. Companies also know that demographic characteristics and cultural diversity impacts the group’s behavior. One wonders how high performance groups become high-performance teams. And the impact demographic characteristics and cultural diversity has on a group. And finally how demographic characteristics and cultural diversity contribute to or detract from high-performance teams. High performance is what every organization desires. High performance helps organizations achieve goals and earn higher profits.
What makes a high-performance group into a high-performance team?
High-performance group is every individual in the group performing good. Nevertheless if a high-performance individual performance good in a group, necessarily does not mean the individual will performer good in a team environment. A high-performance team should have increased productivity, better quality, shortened response time, and lower costs. The group should work as a team to control their day to day production, quality, and administrative duties. A high-performance team should have performance characteristics that include: participative leadership, responsive, aligned on purpose, communicative, task focused, problem solving, shared responsibility, and innovative. High-performance teams must be self directed, integrated production technologies, and organized. To build a high-performance team the group must focus on trust, confidence, and group work skills, balancing and fine tuning the team process as its goes on.
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According to today”s competitive business environment demands increased productivity, better quality, shortened response time, and lower costs. Many corporations have achieved success by replacing the hierarchical boss-subordinate relationship with that of an empowered work team.
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Many corporations know the value of a high-performance team. A high-performance team has a lot to offer to the organization. In a team environment, people are not managed, controlled or supervised. They are led by their mutual vision of the organization”s purpose and goals. Teams out-perform individuals acting alone, especially when performance requires multiple skills, judgments, and experience.
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Demographic characteristics and cultural diversity impacts the group’s behavior greatly. Some demographic characteristics and cultural diversity are: ethnicity, gender, age, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, religion, geographical differences, occupation, differences in skills and abilities, personal traits, value and attitude differences. And cultural diversity impacts the group if all group members are from different contraries. The group or team will have different views and core values coming from a diver cultures. As far as demographic characteristics religion is one characteristic that has a very big roll in group behavior. Religion tells a lot about how you will behave.
What is religion?
Religion is the belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe. As Christians we are thought to be polite and caring for one another. Christians are supposed to behave according to the Bible. The Bible teaches how a Christian should behave. Depending on what religion you have your behavior may be different. Monks have a very sensitive behavior to nature. Monks are very sensitive because of their religion. Monks believe in reincarnation this is why they are so sensitive to living things. Religion defines a person’s behavior in society. Some religions make a person behavior violent. Some religions make people believe suicide is ok. As seen in the new suicide bomber is not rare in the middle-east. The behavior of such people is not normal. This is why religion has a very big role on behavior. Religion can make people do anything, and change peoples behaviors extremely. A group can be impacted very easily by demographic characteristics.
Ethnicity plays another big role in group behavior. Ethnicity defines you as a person in society. Visiting different countries will be a good experience of behavior changes in the different people. Some counties the behavior may seem welcoming and hospital. Other countries behavior may seem rude or unwelcoming. Ethnicity plays a big role in people’s behavior with their rituals or practices. Ethnicity plays a big role, but not always. People that are from one ethnicity go to another country might change. An example would be if you are from another country and you come to America, your attitude might change. Behavior will change dramatically when introduced to a new ethnicity. Not always does ethnicity make peoples behavior change, but sometimes it will. Behavior can change on many different characteristics. As we see ethnicity can impact the group intensely if implemented in a negative way.
Demographic characteristics and cultural diversity contribute to the high-performance teams at times, and detract from high-performance teams other times. As we see cultural diversity can benefit a high-performance group, by each member of the group bringing new thoughts and ideas to the table. Also demographic characteristics can be a good fixation to the high-performance team. If the whole team shares the same core values and respect each other, demographic characteristics would not be an obstacle for them. Instead of viewing demographic characteristics negatively a high-performance team must look at the benefits and values involved with diversity. Nevertheless demographic characteristics and cultural diversity might be viewed in a negative way. This all depends on the organization and the way the high-performance team is associated. In most organizations diversity is positive. With a divers organization, and thinking diversity an organization can go global.
As we come to a conclusion we understand that all companies aim for high performance workers to achieve better goal and higher profits. We also know that companies also know that demographic characteristics and cultural diversity impacts the group’s behavior. And we now know how a high performance groups can become high-performance teams. And the impact demographic characteristics and cultural diversity has on a group. And finally how demographic characteristics and cultural diversity contribute to or detract from high-performance teams. One must know the benefits of high-performance teams, and consider having a high-performance team in his organization.
