Balancing Individual Autonomy and Collaboration in Team Structures

Introduction

Looking up today$$s scenario we can see dynamic and complex working environment in every organization. So$,$ by this nature leaders must think, and work more than two times as compare with past few years. They must face so many challenges in working with the team and making sure of every team member are satisfied is one of the tough job in the world. This paper describes how leader balance their work culture, their supervision, along with the open communication among team member. This paper also explains about the challenges and the problem faced by the leader to balancing their autonomy and collaboration and the concept of micromanaging.

Main Ideas

Importance of individual autonomy mentions the freedom of every team member in decision making process and conduct their task as per their talent and how they want to perform by this they are motivated with job satisfaction $($Deci & Ryan, $2012).$

Obstacles & Stress in managing Personal Autonomy and Collaboration

Nowadays leaders must face so many obstacles and stress to manage their personal freedom and working with the team. One of the major problem they have being facing is struggle between personal freedom along with the team outcomes for the organization $($Chen$,2018).$ Major work of the leader is to make sure about every team member are facing any problem in decision making as in their level or not. And another thing is that every team member can take the responsibility of their individual jobs while the group is working to grab the common goal $($Chen$,2018)$

Second major obstacle is the stress among the requirement of organization and the adaptability of team member $($Huang$,2020).$ By this sentence he tries to explain that leader have to set the proper rules and regulation then only their wants and desire can be meet by granting team member a flexible environment, so the team member can easily adapt their changing situation.

To overcome these stress leaders must develop advance strategy within the organization even by observing their team member moves leader can easily understand team member requirement, preferences and they can also set award ceremony, so they can celebrate their success by this team member also motivated toward the work and completion of goal.

Concept of Micromanaging

As per the google search, micromanaging is a behavior of a manager by over supervising and control over the employee work, not only this by also giving the less task to perform and control in decision$-$making process.

Micromanagement is a setup which is set by the leader where only leader command the whole team, where trust is less, and team member can$$t show their creativity by this whole working environment is toxic and it harmful for whole organizational output $($Gandolfi & Stone, $2022).$ By this description we have already gain some ideas regarding the micromanaging and how its hamper the organization and effect the working environment. Furthermore, how to get rid from the micromanaging system? To prevent from this micromanaging system leaders should focus on different criteria like build the trust among the coworker and team member, establish open discussion strategy, Set the proper guidance among the team member $($Hoch$,$ Kozlowski, & Keller, $2014).$

Supporting Ideas on concept of micromanaging

The employee and team member who are under micromanaged system, they aren$$t open with any work and their creativity which result lower job satisfaction with high stress. By this style most of the employee quit their job with their morality $($Tepper$,2000).$

We all know that, micromanaging may result reducing the output and the performance of employee. When the employee isn$$t trust by their manager or leader then the employee become demotivated and less focus on their work. When the employee push by their manager to show their creativity and trust in their decision making then they are motivated, and output can be easily achieved $($Gagn$$ and Deci, $2005)$

Personal Experience

In my personal experience, When I first entered in the professional world, I had to a micromanager. Who made all the decision of everything and expected to be followed by everyone of branch, even they were sometimes wrong also. This situation made me to quit my job. However, one of my college encourage me by saying that this manager would soon be transfer to another branch and a friendly manager who appreciate our work will replace him. After few months later same, this happen the micromanager get the transferred and the new manager was indeed friendly and supportive. He appreciated our effort and motivated us$.$ With his support I was promoted twice. This experience shows me that the way of manager trust and empower their employees can significantly achieved both organizational aividual fr$.$ write all of theses in APA $7$ edition in word