Summary: The Importance Of Trust In A Cross-Functional Team

Trust is very important with this cross functional team. If there were ever a certain project, where the team members needed to rely on each other to complete their work, there would most likely be great concern for the project getting done. Knowing and trusting in your team members is essential to a person’s job performance. Instead of worrying about if someone else is going to have their part of a project complete in due time. That energy and focus could be applied to their own work and getting it complete in a timely manner. As stated in the text “it takes years to build up trust but only seconds to destroy it”, Kreitner & Kinicki (2013). Although, this can be true in many cases, people are also capable of trusting other very fast. This
is called prosperity of trust. This is “a personality trait involving one's general willingness to trust others”, Kreitner & Kinicki. Possessing this trait allows you to have faith and hope that others are just as much a hard worker as you are. When bringing these three groups together it will give way to more inclusion from all team member as well as being a very diverse team. When having a diverse team you are able to get different points of a problem and different ways to view them. This allows the team to have an advantage by having the multiple people working together to solve problems. Rather than keeping them in separate groups to focus on their own separate projects.