Challenges in Teamwork: International Business Students’ Perspective

Abstract

The aim of this research is to explore students' perception of challenges in teamwork activities. This study avails a quantitative research design and the empirical analysis shows statistically significant results. The results of the analysis reveal that 'uncertain goals' is the most challenging factor in teamwork activities in comparison to 'over expectation' which is the least challenging factor. Similarly, the distribution of the challenging aspects in teamwork shows firstly that 'uncertain goals' to be the most or the second most challenging aspect and secondly that 'over expectation' to be the least or second least challenging aspect. This study finds statistically significant differences between the rankings of the challenges in teamwork activities highlighting that these pairs show statistically significant differences. The variable 'over expectation' stands out as the least challenging of the aspects. The study further shows that the male respondents ranked 'changing plans' to be more challenging factor than female respondents. Similarly, variable 'personality clash' is considered very challenging by African and American students. Our results provide insights related to the challenges in teamwork at higher education institute. This research contributes towards undergraduate student learning experience.