Question

What are the implications of role ambiguity within a team framework and with regard to:

a. Task achievement.

b. Team cohesion.

c. Personal achievement.

If you were appointed the leader for a newly established team, describe how you would ensure that all members of the team knew what they had to accomplish.

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* Implications of role ambiguity within a team framework regards to:

a) task achievement: team members who are not fully aware of their duties and have ambiguity towards their roles can not achieve any assigned task results. Which impacts the team individual as well as team performance to a great extent and decrease productivity. Role ambiguity give rise to mistakes and lead to confusion.

b) team cohesion: role ambiguity negatively impacts team cohesion, and raises conflicting situation. Members of the team have different skills, personalities, capabilities and roles, they are specialised in their respective roles, and work with integration to achieve team performance, if the role ambiguity prevails team members cannot work effectively.

c) personal achievement: every individual's goals and performance are attached to the team's goals and performance, if individual members are not sure about what they are expected to do it will eventually impact whole team in general, and reduce individual productivity in particular.

* If I was appointed the leader of a newly established team, I would ensure that every member of the team is aware and know what he is expected to do by letting them know their roles, duties, and responsibilities. I will frame a standard outcomes to be achieved with proper guidelines and performance outcomes so that role ambiguity have no room to occur.