The impact of teamwork and esprit de corps on employee performance

In today's society, there have been so much emphasis on pride and personal achievement at work place; where by the concept of teamwork seems to be overlooked by managers and employees, due to this management sees less essence of teamwork as a major tool of performance which has leading them to poor performance and productivity. Therefore, the objectives of this study to determine the relationship of teamwork and esprit de corps and to examine their influence on employee performance as individual. RBV (Resource Based View) model used as a guideline to conduct this study. A total of 95 individual fire fighters in Fire and Rescue Department Malaysia located in Perlis participated in this study. Data was collected via survey questionnaires and SPSS was used to generate the data and to test hypothesis. The result of the study showed that there was a significant impact of teamwork and esprit de corps on employee performance. Finally, there are some contributions on theoretical and practical with recommendations, limitation and suggestions for future research also discussed in this study.