Team Work

1. Team Work Team: - A collection of two or more people who: Interact with each other, Perceive themselves to share some common interests, Come together or are brought together to accomplish certain activities Team work: - Is individuals working together to accomplish more than what they could do alone. Individuals in the team work:- Share similar experience, Have mutual influence, Are sociologically aware of each other, Consider themselves as a group/team, Have shared job and responsibility, Enjoy shared leadership and decision, Evaluate each other’s individual and the groups’ performance, Rewards based on best individual and group performances, etc.

2. Stages of team development Stages of team development • Forming/ Underdeveloped team • Storming/ Experiment team • Norming/ The consolidating team • Performing/ The mature team • Adjourning stage Why teams sometimes fail?

3. Characteristics of Effective Team -Work Characteristics of Effective Team -Work • b) Openness and confrontation • d) Co-operation and trust • e) Sound Procedures • f) Appropriate leadership • g) Regular Review • h) Individual development • I) Sound inter-group relations

4. Benefits of team-work a) Morale • On almost every index of satisfaction and morale, cohesive groups rank higher than non-cohesive groups. • In cohesive groups:- • Team members spend more time and communicate with each other more frequently, • They show greater sensitivity to each other, • There is less conflict in cohesive groups, for the team members tend to view the work setting in the same way, • Where there is group cohesiveness ,workers show more understanding to each other, • There is frequently more joking and kidding around, • Workers spend more time hanging around before and after working hours, etc.

5. Benefits of team workcont. • Productivity • Now days no one expects to have all the available information and expertise required to accomplish organizational objectives. Therefore, managers must seek the help and co-operation of different people with different background and experience, • Co-operation between individuals and groups of the various working areas is quite essential for the survival of the organization in a competitive environment,

6. Summary • Team- work is individuals working together to accomplish more than what they could do alone, • The effective characteristics of team work is the basic building block of any organization, • Team building implementation is vital to the success of organization, • Working together as team is mainly for higher productivity and morale.