Teamwork Development: An interactive approach
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Organizations all around the world are comprised of many essential elements, including management, employees, and operational schemes. As techniques in stronger organizational development are conjured, the issue of teamwork within corporations increases in relevance. Today, managers ranging from small businesses to worldwide industries have realized and integrated teamwork methods into their planning. Essentially, teamwork can be referred to a new way of reorganizing, while mainly concentrating on decentralizing responsibility to the employees in a cooperative decision-based environment. Strongly considered are the benefits that employees, working in a team motivated process, offer to the company in all its aspects, including culture, virtues and goals (www.winstonbrill.com, Innovative Leader). What will be thoroughly discussed are the dominating characteristics of teamwork, the methods of selection, leadership and team development. Following this, a team assessment exercise will conclude the research while comparing our personal experience as a team to the theoretical determinants, which will have been previously analyzed.
To begin, the business definition of teamwork relates to the collective decision making processes that lead to goal oriented relationships formed between all participants. Generally, what is required from teams are the integration of work from the people involved, the generation of motives and solutions to the problem concentrated on, high involvement, team leadership and continuous