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Thursday, October 16, 2008
Teamwork: Why Doesnt It Always Succeed?!?!
I have been working for many organization for the past 3-4 years. In this time I have observed that even though the concept of teamwork is very good, i.e. to get a task done as a group but it doesn't always succeed. And the same job, if done individually, could have been very successful. There are different reasons I observed in this regard. One thing was the jealousy among different team members and specially among team leader and the group members. Usually other members of the team feel that they were the better option for being a team lead but this other person got lucky and became his/her team lead. Due to this very factor team members try to put others down in some cases. Also its very common that once given authority, team lead tries to take advantage of it and instead of he/she himself doing his/her work, put it on the team members. This also leads to a bad team work and project sinks. So I believe that even though there are many benefits of teamwork but it also has some drawbacks attached. So a manager should give much importance to the matter before assigning it to the team, that does this task really needs a teamwork or it can be done individually.
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Some research on group work, particularly small groups, recognizes the intricacy of group success. Some groups will work together well, and others will be less productive. To some extent the normative group approach is best, where individuals work on their own and then compare results or collaborate at some later stage of the project. There are so many different factors which can affect group productivity that it is sometiems better to work individually. Team work, and Team membership is popular right now though, and it is often difficult to push against the theory of the moment.
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