If you were the President of an organization, would you want your employee to be competitive or collaborative? Validate your comments.

 If I were the president of an organisation, I would want my employees to be collaborative instead of competitive with each other. Although there are a number of researches which indicate that competition among employees serves to increase the efficiency of workforce, it is important to note that competition causes employees to experience a discord and they do not collaborate with each other for the achievement of mutual objectives. Just as the term implies, competition causes employees to feel competitive towards each other and in severe cases, it causes employees to harbour negative feelings towards each other. For instance, if an employee is promoted and he is appreciated for the work he has done, it will cause other employees to feel jealous and instead of affecting them positively, it will create issues. In fact, the management might even experience difficulties in managing employees. For instance, if there is a project that requires employees to work as a team, they will not work with each other. In addition to it, they will not communicate with each other and the project will only result in failure.

            Therefore, instead of competition, I would want my employees to be collaborative. It would enable them to communicate in an effective manner with each other. They will have a common objective and they will invest their efforts to accomplish it. This approach towards work will not only benefit them but will also result in enhanced workforce efficiency (Longenecker, Petty, Palich, & Hoy, 2013).

Regarding your organization or an organization you have been with in the past, what do you see as that organization's core competency? What set this organization apart from others? Be specific in identifying this.

            In the past, I have worked with an organisation named Ignition Inc. It was a project management firm and I worked in the department of research and development. The main objective of the department was to come up with new and unique methods of meeting the needs of customers by completing the project. What seemed to set this organisation apart from any other company was its openness about creativity. The management focused significantly on the need of collaboration among employees. For instance, every employee was allowed to communicate with the other employee for as long as he wanted. As long as employees did their work accurately and met the needs of customers, they were allowed to do anything they wanted. Employees were put into different teams and they had to work with each other for the effective completion of the project.

            Many organisations do not focus on collaboration and creativity. However, Ignition Inc. made sure that the company had an open and creative environment. Since employees were not subjected to any limitations, it enabled them to be creative and more efficient than traditional employees who were subjected to restrictions about not talking and being formal within the company. For instance, it was identified by the management in an analysis that the company’s workforce was twice as efficient as the workforce of its competitor. Therefore, management implemented several initiatives which had the aim of improving the creativity of employees and making them satisfied and happy with the company (Sampaio, Thomas, & Font, 2012).

References of Organisation Discussions

Longenecker, J. G., Petty, J. W., Palich, L. E., & Hoy, F. (2013). Small business management. Nelson Education.

Sampaio, A. R., Thomas, R., & Font, X. (2012). Small business management and environmental engagement. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 20(2), 179-193.