TEAMWORK

ABSTRACT

By adding the word team work, meaning teamwork, a meeting of a group whose objective is to achieve a jointly defined set of tasks is obtained; everyone's participation in the collective work contributes in achieving a common goal of the team. A team is a group of people interacting in order to gain or accomplish a common target, which implies a distribution of tasks and convergence of efforts of team members. This report focused on an overview of teamwork and defining its strengths and limitations. Furthermore, an analysis has also been provided after the review of the topic on hand.

Team Work

Introduction

Overview of Team work

A team is described as a collection of individuals. They are focused on their identity and individual functioning within a territory. When they feel secure about their identity and their territory, the team members move gradually their energy to the processes that affect other members. Communicate better, try out alliances with one or two people becomes a concern. The team members acquire a systemic view. A team is a dynamic force, alive and moving on which are grafted individuals to accomplish a task. The team members jointly determine their goals, emit ideas, make decisions and work collectively. Working in groups, is building a team based on listening and negotiation is a consensus for decision making. It is also said that a problem to be solved, must have information and ideas of all those involved. It is finally capitalize on communication between people, accountability and autonomy of each (Conlon, 2005). The word team means a group of people. However, there is a particular group because its members have common reasons to be united. The above explanation of teamwork highlights three key features that present a work team:

Acommon target: an ultimate goal, to achieve a final product;

Operationalize a task: a task that relies on the means, resources and tools for each, as well as a specific procedure to follow;

The convergence of efforts of each member: collaboration, when performing tasks, which takes place in a healthy work environment and solidarity

Discussion

Organizational Responsibility

The organization should use strategies to initiate and enhance team work and their performance. An effective performance appraisal system in a team-based organization includes a results-orientation and a concern with the processes that enable results. One way to accomplish this is to use a goal-based system that holds the team accountable for results and individuals accountable for their contribution to the team. At each organizational level, it is vitally important that the performing unit, whether individual or team be actively involved with the next higher level in the joint determination of appropriate goals and criteria of performance (Cohen, 1997). The locus of performance appraisal should remain at the local level between the manager and teams and between the teams and their members. This provides flexibility in tailoring individual performance appraisal to accommodate the many different types of work arrangements found in organizations today individual contributors, part-time team members, or core team members—and the different types of contributions ...