ABSTRACT

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Abstract
In today’s organizations, individuals have been focusing on achieving the occupational purposes and goals at their work place individually more than focusing on the concept of teamwork. Noticeably, the importance of teamwork as an essential tool in work environment seems to be neglected by both employers and employees which has led to ineffective performance and poor productivity in their jobs. Therefore, the present study sought to examine the effect of work teams on employee performance in Umar Bin Al-Khattwab Islamic Centre. The objective of this research was to examine the effects of teamwork on employees’ performance in Umar Bin Al-Khattwab Islamic Centre. The study adopted a descriptive survey design on a target population of 205staffs of Umar Bin Al-Khattwab Islamic Centre out of which a sample of 135 was drawn using simple random and purposive sampling techniques. Data was collected from 120 employees by means of a questionnaire supplemented with interviews. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse data under Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) to examine the effects of the variables i.e., teamwork, team spirit, team trust, and team leadership and employee performance. The study results showed that, there is a significant and positive impact of the predictors on the response variable with an adjusted R2 of 70.5%. The IVs of teamwork, team spirit, team trust and leadership has a significant and positive effect on employee performance in UBAIC but from a negative perspective unfortunately. The recommendations given for this study therefore, are to aid UBAIC to improve teamwork for better organizational performance.
Keywords: teamwork, staff performance

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