The Role of Team Effectiveness in Quality of Health Care

Quality is often used in wider context of organizational development and continuous staff capacity development. Nevertheless, it is not only related to organizational development and goes beyond in improving staff attitude in workplace to achieve goals in Quality of Health care. Quality accomplishment of goals efficiently and effectively is possible through one of the best practices i.e., effective team work and it is known to everyone. However, all teams formed are not effective, in some situations members put less efforts in team than in individuals. Team effectiveness involves thorough processes to achieve quality and effectiveness. It involves investment in it functioning like democracy, leadership, equality, and participation of the members. Team if not formed involving quality processes can have worst results and rather can be referred as only bunch of individuals. There are certain factors which make team effective; they are clearly defined goals, leadership, and equity in terms of power distribution. The democratic functions of the team such as participation and inclusion of all members is important and where the members feel they are valued in the team.

Author(s): Abhijeet Sinha

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