In this challenging knowledge era work teams have been described as basic integral for organizational success. The use of teams has become very popular global strategy and a number of MNC has also implemented teams in their organization. The major reason for developing team culture in the organization is that it provides certain organizational benefits, such as the improvement of team performance, productivity, and cost reduction and employee satisfaction. However not all teams are the ones of high efficiency. Many researchers argue that there are some influential factors for the improvement of team’s effectiveness. Among various influential factors of team effectiveness, emotion and emotional behavior are considered to be important factors that affect team effectiveness. Druskat and wolff proposed a model of how emotions and emotional behaviours are manifested in group and how the behavioural norms that are established in a group affect the group’s performance. The proposed behavioural norms are labeled emotionally competent group norms( ECGN). These norms have been linked to team performance. This study was done to examine whether the emotionally competent group norms in a team affect the team effectiveness.

Key word: Team, Performance, Effectiveness, ECGN, Behavioural Norms