Three Effective Aspects of Teamwork

Nowadays many business companies encourage employees to collaborate with other workers. What are effects of teamwork distinctive to individual work? How do the distinctive advantages of teamwork such as various team members, collaboration, and continuous interaction between members effect the output and each team member? Working as a team provides an unbiased execution, solves complicate works through allocating tasks and improve each individual’s capability.

First of all, collaborative work implements unbiased recommendations than if they come from individual. People tend to think through a biased process called assimilation. According to developmental psychologist Piaget, people take in new information or experiences and incorporate them into existing ideas through the cognitive process called assimilation. The process is somewhat subjective, because we tend to modify experience or information somewhat to fit in with our preexisting beliefs. However, since different people think in different ways, through team working, in which various people share ideas and decide together, biases are diminished accordingly. Recent research by Deborah Gruenfeld proposes that teams including at least two different points of view regarding a particular issue make better decisions. Deborah accounts the pressure of the minority which forces the majority to think more complexly and consider diverse evidence as the main factor. Indeed, U.S. Supreme Court teams consist of various opinions were more likely to overturn legal precedent.

Furthermore, through team working, people can manage complicate works smoothly These days, problems have been encountered due to several multiplicative factors. Through teamwork, team members can distribute role...

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...earch for the topic and apply effective techniques to get the result. Moreover it gives an opportunity for students to solve the problem by a healthy discussion and co-operation. This is what we call 'group discussions' which motivates the students to perform in a team, show leadership skills and enhances the presentation capabilities as well. Benefits of using collaborative processes are not limited to the college classroom, but applicable to real-world.

In conclusion, teamwork encourages various thinking by suggesting unbiased execution, enables to solve complicate works by the way of sharing works and individuals can advance their capability during the process. However these effects are manifested well when sound conditions of teamwork are formed. That is, it is important to follow leader, make open communication situation in order to magnify effect of teamwork.