A development of a team working effectiveness: A case study on SMEs in Thailand

Abstract

               There are many techniques and skills are applied to success an organization’s goals and objectives. One of the techniques used by organizations is team working. This research paper presents an empirically based case study on an organization’s team working techniques and also investigates the effectiveness of team working in SMEs. The firms that have been examined for the purpose of this research is focused on SMEs which amounted to 3,446,589.2 million baht representing 37.9 percent of Thai GDP. The number accounts for 99.8 percent of approximately 2,000,000 SMEs businesses in Thailand and generates employment for 9.7 million people, or almost 80 percent of all jobs in Thailand. Unit of analysis of present research is 2,400 employees and (400) executives all regions in Thailand was carried out using a developed questionnaire  as  the  research  tool  to analyze the team working effectiveness and techniques adapted to form and develop teams respectively. Structured interviews were also conducted among selected four hundred (400) executives from a list of small and medium industrial institute (SMI) to understand the organization’s rational for team working and techniques adapted to form and develop teams.