The Dynamics of the Factors That Affect High Performing Teams

Abstract

The study is focused on reviewing some of the key factors and attributes that support high performing teams, with a view to determining if they could be ranked altogether in order of importance. This called for a survey of project team members from diversity to attempt to rank the attributes and by so doing form a basis of the study conclusion. The survey used a set of questionnaires (administered to 107 respondents) that is compatible with qualitative research. This was direct to rank the attributes from the perspectives of positive and negative impacts of the attributes to high performing project teams. It was also extended to know to which of collocated or virtual teams the factors will weigh more. While Trust stands out as the most important of the attributes, other attributes did not show a consistent ranking. Thus, it is concluded that the attributes do not have structured ranking, and therefore could have different levels of importance in different places. Nevertheless, it was pointed out that virtual project teams could not have the benefits of the attributes as in a collocated project team environment.