Key Performance Indicators Influence to Team Building

Active implementation by Russian companies of management systems based on key performance indicators (KPI) aimed at achieving the strategic goals of an organization, is impossible without the activation of team methods of work. The purpose of this paper is to justify the influence of key performance indicators on the process of forming teams. In the modern hypercompetitive and unstable environment, the issues of creating and managing teams that are able to react quickly to changes are highly relevant. The objective of the paper is to reveal the importance of the influence of key performance indicators on teamwork, the proper setting of them, contributing to the creation and maintenance of teamwork, the creative approach to the development of key performance indicators, not based on the analysis of the past, and analyzing the probable future. The paper discusses the basic principles of teamwork; methods of forming teams using key performance indicators, such as parametric, sociometric, and experimental. The advantages and disadvantages of these methods are revealed. There is an analogy with the team sports: baseball, American football, basketball. An example of the development of team key performance indicators is given. Questions of the conditions of successful team work and how key performance indicators can influence the success of the team are raised.