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Tribune News Network
Doha
A new poll by Bayt.com, entitled 'Teams in the MENA Workplace', has found that teams form a very important part of job satisfaction for nine in every 10 employees across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
The majority of respondents (88.2%) believe that, overall, their teams work effectively together, with 47.9 percent stating that teamwork is 'very' effective.
62.8 percent of MENA respondents are happy with their teams, with 37.4 percent being 'extremely' happy. Four in 10 respondents (40.5%) strongly agree that there is a lot of trust between members on their teams.
Around four in 10 respondents claim that their immediate team consists of 2-5 members (41.8%), while a quarter said it consists of more than 16 members (25.5%). One in five respondents claim that their immediate team consists of 6-10 members, and 11-16 members make up the teams for 11.9 percent of those polled.
Both team manager and team members take credit for team successes (66.5%). However, for 16.6 percent of respondents the opposite is true; they believe that top management takes credit for success, while 9 percent say only the team manager does.
Having said that, 52.3 percent of respondents believe that in the MENA region both the manager and members are responsible for the failure in their team. 21.3 percent think that the responsibility falls on the team manager only, while 15.6 percent believe that top management is responsible. Only 10.7 percent think that only team members are responsible for failures in their team.
When it comes to decision making in the team, 60.7 percent of MENA respondents are of the opinion that the team leader is also the central decision maker, while 39.3 percent think the opposite is true. There is no doubt that MENA respondents view their team leaders as hard working (86.3%), with almost four in 10 (37.3%) believing their team leader is 'very' hard working.
