Jamyang Tenzin* and Thinley Choden
Background: Overworked collaboration is a symptom of a larger organizational issue. Many business leaders are now aware of the consequences of workplace collaboration overload. The evidence continues to build that the costs of meetings, emails, and other kinds of workforce cooperation now outweigh the advantages for many firms. In many companies, this ratio hovers around 80%, leaving employees with very little time for all the important work they need to do on their own. Performance suffers when they are buried in a wave of requests for feedback or advice, access to resources, or attend meetings.
Although the advantages of collaboration are well documented, the costs are frequently overlooked. In some of the articles, some of the leaders are experiencing collaborative overload, while others are experiencing the opposite. In this present study it has attempts to determine how much time people spend in meetings, on the phone, and replying to e-mails, as well as requests for extra input for the co-partner in day to day operations, and which categories of staff suffer from collaborative overload.
Methods: Focusing on the main objective of the research, the survey is conducted to study the prevalence of collaborative overload among the professional staff under Royal University of Bhutan, Bhutan. The method used for this research is based on quantitative data collection since this method emphasizes on objective measurements and statistical, mathematical and numerical analysis of data collected through questionnaires and surveys. The main reason behind conducting quantitative research is to determine the frequency of various variables associated with the workload that led to collaborative overload.
Findings: The results show that collaborative overload has been increasing with the increase in the position level. The degree of collaborative overload is higher in PL3 and PL4 level (Grade) with the mean scores of 4.34 and 4.21 respectively. But there is also existence of collaborative overload among other position level PL5, PL6 and PL7.
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