Teams play a vital role in achieving targets. Good team dynamics is the back bone of every successful team. Team dynamics is defined to be a functional process, which involves leadership, sharing of ideas, development within the team, decision making, to and fro communication etc. Team dynamics is more over the interaction between the members of a team and the performance of the team. The productivity and the efficiency of the team can be seen through effective team dynamics. The social process by which people interact in a group environment. The influences of personality, power and behaviour on the group process.
Team dynamics refers to the attitudinal and behavioural characteristics of a team. Team dynamics concern how they form, their structure and process, and how they function. Team dynamics are relevant in both formal and informal groups of all types. Team dynamics has a very important role in the organisation.
Team Dynamics are the unseen forces that operate in a team between different people or groups. Team Dynamics can strongly influence how a team reacts, behaves or performs, and the effects of team dynamics are often very complex.
For example - Suppose in a small team of six people working in office there are two people who have a particularly strong friendship. This friendship is a "natural force" that may have an influence on the rest of the team, and can be manifest in various ways, either positively or negatively.
Other factors can also play an influence. For example, if a wall of cupboards were to be placed across the middle of the office, this would also form a 'natural force' that influences the communication flow and may separate the team into two further separate teams.
Sometimes, an "absence" of a natural force can also be a team dynamic. For example, if the leader or manager is permanently removed from the office, the group may be drawn into a change of behaviour.
TUCKMAN’S MODEL OF TEAM DYNAMICS
Dr Bruce Tuckman