Teamwork is the capability a group of people have when they work together for a common purpose, which in most cases is the economic buildup of an organization. A team is formed when people of the same cordial relationship, same tastes and preferences, same attitudes, and same goal come together and combines the resources available.
Teamwork and team spirit plays an important role in both an individual’s life and an organization’s success. Varying companies have different rules that enable a favorable teamwork environment. A team leader plays an integral part in the team. The main responsibility of a leader is to guide the members to reach the expectations set aside by the company and to motivate the other team members in the workplace. Teamwork incorporates numerous benefits to an organization.
Importance of Teamwork
Teamwork is the capability a group of people have when they work together for a common purpose, which in most cases is the economic buildup of an organization. A team is formed when people of the same cordial relationship, same tastes and preferences, same attitudes, and same goal come together and combines the resources available. Teamwork and team spirit plays an important role in both an individual’s life and an organization’s success. Varying companies have different rules that enable a favorable teamwork environment. A team leader plays an integral part in the team. The main responsibility of a leader is to guide the members to reach the expectations set aside by the company and to motivate the other team members in the workplace. Teamwork incorporates numerous benefits to an organization.
One way teamwork ensures work is done efficiently is through equal distribution of work (West, 36).because many organizations are built on the foundations of success and making money, work available in the firm ought to be completed fast and efficiently. Organizational work incorporates diverse information, which requires time and effort in order to tackle such work. Fair work distribution ensures every person executes the work given efficiently and within the stipulated time (West, 36). A single employee handling numerous responsibilities avails chances of failures but if work is divided equally and every worker contributes something, then the goals and objectives can be easily obtained. Team work ensures a greater scope of work is done on a daily basis especially if the company has numerous responsibilities. In theory, it sounds easier completing a certain task and then tackling another within the stipulated time frame. When this is put into practice, the task becomes a little bit difficult. This is the case where the task assigned requires multiple resource gathering, which an individual cannot be able to handle at once. If such information was undertaken by a group of professionals having diverse knowledge and experience, completing a task becomes easier and one gets the satisfaction of doing something without the pressure and struggles.
Due to the recent global financial crisis, the majority of companies are forced to cut down the number of employee workforce or in most cases, end up shutting down. Teamwork has enabled most companies to adapt to the changing financial environments. One theoretical approach is the understanding of the financial economy. If the economy is unpredictable, finding an appropriate and effective of organizing the company would become the most suitable option. Practically, teamwork offers the platform to ensure that the appropriate and effective method is employed. A team is considered as the only single unit necessary for the survival of a company (West, 156). Organizations are practically scrapping out the traditional system of organization whereby each individual is given their own separate work. Instead of this system, a group of capable and talented individuals comes together and combine their efforts, skills and knowledge (West, 156) and in the end, teamwork ensures quality work is done.
Where there are two or more professionals, there is diverseness of information. Each team member has their own ideas and innovations, which when put together can be producing an efficient outcome. In order to have the topmost quality management, Shared vision ought to be incorporated as it enables the corporation to plan strategically about its future. In theory, each team member has a different vision of the company and it cannot achieve the appropriate results if not shared amongst each participant. In teamwork, the team member shares the vision of the company to each member and in doing so builds team spirit and confidence in the members (DuBrin, 10). The shared vision ought to be clearly understood and clearly defined on the basis of what should be done and what should not be done by the team members. Team involvement in relation to the shared vision is a practical approach that ensures work allocation is done will full commitment.
In order for teamwork to thrive, there should be trust among members. Trust is regarded as one of the major attributes that lead to the success of an individual or a company (DuBrin, 357). In an organization where there is no trust between the workmates, every individual result to work singlehandedly and in the long run no much work would have been done. Scandals and self pity, which aims at destroying an organization, will be the main agenda (DuBrin, 358). Practically, incorporating trust within the workplace creates a level of interdependency between the employees. This interdependency will ensure that there is a positive result having the quality it deserves from the team members. Since each person working alone is prone to making great risks, team work ensures there are minimal risks. In case failure occurs, the team members involved gets a share of the blame. This being so, no team member would want to bear the blame for another person’s mistake thus minimal risks. Team members ought to promote trust to other members by portraying the sense of vulnerability and coming out in case they make a mistake. Since members do not advocate taking risks in their work place, the team leader together with the organizational leaders should try and set high expectations for the workers and encourage them to take risks as a way of avoiding making blunders. The quality of service expected will be great and together with the services provided.
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- Martin Kirugi (Author), 2015, Advantages of Teamwork, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/312189