Teamwork: an Interactive Approach

Organizations all around the world are comprised of many essential elements, including management, employees, and operational schemes. As techniques in stronger organizational development are conjured, the issue of teamwork within corporations increases in relevance. Today, managers ranging from small businesses to worldwide industries have realized and integrated teamwork methods into their planning. Essentially, teamwork can be referred to a new way of reorganizing, while mainly concentrating on decentralizing responsibility to the employees in a cooperative decision-based environment. Strongly considered are the benefits that employees, working in a team motivated process, offer to the company in all its aspects, including culture, virtues and goals (www.winstonbrill.com, Innovative Leader). What will be thoroughly discussed are the dominating characteristics of teamwork, the methods of selection, leadership and team development. Following this, a team assessment exercise will conclude the research while comparing our personal experience as a team to the theoretical determinants, which will have been previously analyzed.

To begin, the business definition of teamwork relates to the collective decision making processes that lead to goal oriented relationships formed between all participants. Generally, what is required from teams are the integration of work from the people involved, the generation of motives and solutions to the problem concentrated on, high involvement, team leadership and continuous encouragement (http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu, General Considerations). The first characteristic of integration relies on the overall cooperation off all members as we...

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...g, then the others would stop and revise that which needed to be clearly comprehended. In addition, the fact that three out of the four live nearby was an advantage because it allowed Person C to offer dropping the other two at their houses. Thus, this was another positive aspect, even if it was not directly related to the project. Overall, we believe having started out as a group we weaved our work interaction into a team due to our abilities to complement each other and distribute accountability accordingly. Our team had cohesiveness and productivity given that our common final result was to earn an `A' for this unified project. Generally, we set common objectives, listened to what the other had to say and made decisions by consensus. It was a gratifying experience that may have served as a window to the world of business communication and teamwork behaviour.