Coal Mine Employee in the Context of the Patrick Lencioni`s Teamwork Theory

Abstract

The nature of work organization in hard coal mines makes the group work an indispensable element of its environment. More and more oft en, however, in order to increase the efficiency of operations, its higher form is used - task teams. Especially in the developed project management or task-based settlement of the effects of activities. Diff erent teams achieve diff erent quality and speed in the implementation of tasks. Thus, one of the ways to improve the company’s performance can be the rationalization of the organization of work forms in enterprises. Patrick Lencioni, as a result of many years of research, identified 5 main dysfunctions of the work teams: lack of trust in a team, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoiding responsibility, lack of care for results. The five dysfunctions of teamwork identified by P. Lencioni indicate some behaviors characterizing the „Z” type employee described, in the earlier publications, by the author. The author asked herself if such an employee poses a threat of occurrence of such dysfunctions and what is his attitude to work in a team of employees. The research on the identification of employees’ „Z” attitudes towards teamwork was conducted among employees of Polish mining enterprises. Choosing the right size of the sample was an important issue of the survey. In order to determine the minimum sample size, a random selection was used based on a predetermined level of precision. To identify employee attitudes, a comparison of the answers obtained from the assumed pattern was used (pattern = no characteristics of „Z” type employee). To illustrate the dispersion of employee attitudes in relation to the pattern, the Mahalanobis distance was used. Then, the author investigated what attitude to teamwork and its role in the employees’ team is expressed by the respondents, divided into employees with „Z” features and employees who do not show such features. The summary has contained final conclusions results of the presented research.