Team Performance and Individual Performance: Example from Engineering Consultancy Company in China

Using teams to accomplish work is one of the methods that a wide range of organizations in China have chosen. Teams are now viewed as an effective means to flatten the organizational hierarchy, strengthen cooperation, encourage integration of diversified knowledge and increase productivity. Meanwhile, one of the first human resources management program affected by moving to teams is performance evaluation, which needs good balancing of team performance and individual performance. In this paper, by taking examples of one engineering consultancy company in which working team is frequently used, problems happened in the process of performance evaluation will be discussed and analyzed, and the proposed plan for both identifying team performance and clarifying individual performance will be suggested.