A good manager is most important role in a group. Whether the manager can help a work group to function as an effective team is determining if the work will be successful. Following, the differences between group and team, what is called effective team, why groups sometimes fail and how to improve group and team effectiveness
Many people use the word group and team interchangeably, but there are many differences between group and team. A number of leadership courses designed for the corporate world stress the importance of team building, not group building. For example, a team's strength depends on the commonality of purpose and interconnectivity between individual members, whereas a group's strength may come from sheer volume or willingness to carry out a single leader's commands (wisegeek, 2008).
A group is easier to be formed than a team. In a group, if you have a group of professional accountants, the accountants could be grouped according to gender, experience, fields of expertise, age, or other common factors. They are all professional as accountants, so the leader will be harder to make consensus building.
A team is much more difficult to form. The member of the team may be elected for their complementary skills, not a single commonality. For instance, the member of business can be accountant, a company manager and a secretary. Every member has different functions in the business. So the overall success depends on a functional interpersonal dynamic. The leader will be easier to make consensus building. (wisegeek, 2008).
By comparison, a team does not rely on “groupthink”, because the groups are all in same specialty, the group is easy to form a “groupthink”. On the other hand, a team is formed of different functional peoples, so it will have different results. An accident investigation team would be a good example of a real world team dynamic. Each member of the team is assigned to evaluate one aspect of the accident. The