The relationship between teamwork and employee performance at Sarawak Land Consolidation Authority (SALCRA), Kota Samarahan,Sarawak/ Donald Richie Kelabo

This research study analysed the relationship between teamwork and employee performance at Sarawak Land Consolidation and Rehabilitation Authority
(SALCRA), Kota Samarahan, Sarawak. Independent variables for this study are espirit de corps, recognition and rewards and team trust. Dependent variable for this study is employee performance. Both variables are adopted from Manzoor, Hafizullah, Husain & Ahmad (2011). Questionaire was developed for the purpose of data collection which distributed at SALCRA. There were 128 sets of questionnaires were and only 79.7% return (102 sets). The data was analysed by using Statistical Package for Social Science Software (SPSS) version 20 person Correlation was performed on the collected data to determine the relationship between teamwork and employee performance. The finding shows there were relationship between both variables. Team trust has strong correlation toward employee performance where is r=.767 (p<0.01). Similar to the finding of some researchers (Sheilkh Racheel Manzoor, Hafiz Ullah, Murad Hussain and Zulqarnain Muhammad Ahmad, 2011) with the correlation value r=.647, p<0.01. Besides that, other elements in teamwork which were esprit de corp and recognition and reward also have a strong correlation and significant relationship (p<0.01) towards employee performance which the correlation for espirit de corp was r=.700, p<0.01 and recognition and reward was r=.704, p<0.01. SALCRA should be a role model to other organization as they proof
that they make teamwork is the important things to gain employee performance in order to achieve highest performance and productivity of organization.