Team Management, Diversity, and Performance as Key Influencing Factors of Organizational Sustainable Performance

Elena Cizmaș, Emőke-Szidónia Feder, Mădălina-Dumitrița Maticiuc and Silvia Vlad-Anghel
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Elena Cizmaș: Management Department, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, West University of Timișoara, 300115 Timișoara, Romania
Emőke-Szidónia Feder: Marketing and International Economic Relations Department, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, West University of Timișoara, 300115 Timișoara, Romania
Mădălina-Dumitrița Maticiuc: Management Department, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, West University of Timișoara, 300115 Timișoara, Romania
Silvia Vlad-Anghel: Management Department, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, West University of Timișoara, 300115 Timișoara, Romania

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 18, 1-33

Abstract: This paper examines the effects of management functions on the performance of diverse teams working on projects in the Information Technology (IT) industry, as well as the impact of their performance on organizational sustainable performance. Grounded on organizational management and work team management specific empirical studies and literature, we clarified the content of management functions in the framework of teamwork and acknowledged manners to express the performance of teams distinguished through diversity, as well the most relevant positive effects of team results on organizational performance. On the above basis, we built the online questionnaire. The study involved 189 respondents, who work either in Romania or in the Czech Republic on IT field specific projects. Empirical results show that, individually, some management functions are connected with co-workers’ and teams’ performance, while others are not, but considered together, in interdependence with joint effects, they influence the team’s performance and the organization’s performance from the perspective of its sustainable strategic competencies.

Keywords: diversity; multicultural teams; management functions; co-workers’ performance; team performance; sustainable performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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