An investigation into the effectiveness of teambuilding in the whole school development department of a non governmental organisation (NGO) in the Valley of a Thousand Hills, KwaZulu-Natal.

• Main Author: Vilbro, Brenda Ann.
• Other Authors: Thurlow, Michael.
• Language: en
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Total quality management in education.; School management and organization > KwaZulu-Natal.; Teams in the workplace > Evaluation.; Theses > Education.
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10413/3241

This research investigates the effectiveness of teambuilding in the whole School Development Department of an NGO based in the Valley of a Thousand Hills, KwaZuluNatal. My personal view is that teamwork is essential to the effective functioning of people in organisations. As I am the manager of the Whole School Development Department, I initiated a teambuilding programme at the beginning of 2002. My gut feeling is that teambuilding is the most important tool that can bring a team together in pursuit of common goals. By embarking on this research, I would be able to explore the perceptions of team members in respect of the effectiveness of teambuilding. From the outset it was believed that a case study approach would be most appropriate. This approach allowed the manager (researcher) to freely observe and interact with the subjects of the research. During the research, data was collected and analysed on an ongoing basis. Due to the nature of the research and the size of the population (eleven members in the team) the researcher was able to focus on the entire population. Results obtained revealed that the manager and team members were committed and dedicated to make teambuilding work. All the participants had a large say in how it would be run and all wanted the team to be as good as it could be. === Thesis (M.Ed.) - University of Natal, Durban, 2003.