THE ROLE OF EFFICACY IN TEAM BASED ORGANIZATIONS USING THE HOLISTIC APPROACH: IMPACT AND IMPLICATIONS AND A CALL FOR FURTHER RESEARCH

Abstract

When assessing the role and efficacy of team based organizations, our group found that a holistic
approach should be considered to understand the impact and implications of team based organizations
and self- management in organizational development. This paper attempts to explore this issue. In
addition, this approach was engaged in due to our understanding of an efficacy being an intervention
to produce or achieve a goal or desired effect. Hence, if applied to organizational development, this
presentation wishes to assess how and whether the implementation of team based organizations and
self-management allows an organization to achieve success. However, we believe that team based
organizations and self-management is inter-related terms, hence the focus would be how selfmanagement exists in teams. Although our presentation considers a holistic perspective which include:
A background and introduction; a brief definition of a team; what is meant by a team based
organization; the need for team based organizations; the six stages of team based work; different types
of teams; TBO in South Africa; Advantages and disadvantages of TBO, failures of TBO; and a Case
Study on BMW South Africa, we have chosen to focus and elaborate on: The background and
introduction; a definition of a team; what is meant by team based organizations; and the case study of
team work and self-management in BMW South Africa. The emphasis of this paper is to elaborate and
justify the sections of our presentation that we have engaged in. A paper of this nature cannot be all
encompassing and does not pretend to capture or exhaust the subject matter to any finality.
Key Words: Efficacy, Team Based Organizations, Holistic Approach, Impact, Implications