Promotion of competition in markets, changing the taste of customers and technologic developments and other factors of modern world have ever involved the mind of managers, planners and experts of human resources dept of enterprises and this question is propounded that how employees’ performance level in the enterprises may be increased? Which factors cause improvement of human resources performance of an institute or service or manufacturing enterprise? Today, the experts of management science have concluded that the groups are assumed as the foundation of plenty of enterprise performance improvements and one of solutions for enterprises dilemmas is benefitting from teamwork, cooperation and participation of employees in decision-making that will result in considerably increase of working departments’ productivity, and the employees will achieve more satisfaction with their work, and in addition to meeting their emotional needs can increase their working productivity through achievement to higher levels of needs and natural growth.
This study intends to specify the association between individual level of workgroups (based on Driskell, Salas and Hogan 1987 model) and employees performance (according to ACHIEVE performance model). Descriptive correlative method has been applied for this study. The sample included 87 employees of bank branches management dept. in great Tehran who were selected by stratified random sampling based on sex, experience, educational level and organizational position. To collect the data, questionnaire was used and its validity and reliability was confirmed. At end, the obtained data was analyzed according to Pearson coefficient of correlation and multiple regression analysis. Summary of analysis demonstrated positive and significant association between individual characteristics of teamwork and characteristics of Achieve model in significance level 01.0% (P<0.0).
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