Effect of Teamwork on Employee Performance of Public Sector Universities in Peshawar

Abstract

Modern society strongly focus on personal achievement and pride at workplace. Consequently, the teamwork concept is neglected by the employees and managers. This shift has led managers to underestimate the essence of teamwork which negatively impact the productivity and performance. This study seeks to explore that teamwork has impact on the performance of organization. The objective was to explore factors influencing teamwork, examine the dual effects of teamwork on employees, highlighting both positively and negatively and to explore the teamwork effects on the performance of the organization. This study investigates the impact of teamwork on the performance of organization on the employees of three public universities in Peshawar. Employee were selected based on convenience sampling technique and management in the organization were selected based on purposive sampling technique. For the data collection adopted questionnaire was used. To investigate the relationship between three variables this study used correlation techniques that were Teamwork employee and Organization Performance. The finding of this study shows that teamwork and various aspect of team performance enhance organizational performance. Some contradictions were observed as we celebrate team effort but award individual level recognition and rewards. The result shows a significant positive impact of teamwork on the performance of organization and employee performance although due to effort and reward incongruence issues of free-riding and effort restriction due to low motivation occurs.