A lot of things can be said about the advantages of teamwork in our private lives just as much as in career. Despite the fact that the capitalist world at large rarely acknowledge its importance teamwork is the thing that acted as a foundation of the system.
Whenever we discuss successful projects in our field we are also, at the same time, talking about teams that work well together. Teams that structure themselves effectively.
Nowadays the structure of the teams in our organization is playing more and more of role as larger and larger companies are created. But we ought to mention that more important than structures are the missions and the goals the organization has adopted.
No matter how intelligently designed the structure of the teams or the relations between the members if the individual persons do not particularly care about the work they are doing, or they do not consider it worthwhile, then there is no teamwork to speak of.
Communication
In order for there to be a cohesiveness to your groups you need to have transparency. This can more or less be achieved by utilizing different communicative tools.
First of all branding, the organizational mission and its attitude towards the staff should be very clear and justified. If the only thing your workers care about throughout the day is their paycheck then, as a rule, there were a lot of things the organization handled poorly in relation with them.
In order to foster an environment conducive to teamwork the company should always be on a lookout for ways to assist its workers. If, as usual, the only thing the company itself cares about it their attempts at profit maximization then the working environment is bound to get toxic, the alienation of the workers deepen at some point or another.
Methods & Approaches
One of the most crucial aspects of successful communication practices are the right methods and approaches that are taken with respect to the organization itself. In other words the ethical principles the organization lives by.
We should also mention the flow of information between the teams. It is much easier to facilitate this when the organization, in general, promotes a culture that is welcoming and helpful. More informality might be better here considering the fact that individual members of the team are more likely to be driven by non-financial incentives than financial ones.
Organizational culture
This abstract concept signifies the different characteristics an organization adopts throughout its "life"; In addition to how these various characteristics affect individual members of the organization.
There is a double-sides causal link between the organizational culture & its teamworking abilities. This two way street is hard to cross if the current situation at work is unsatisfactory.
This is why it is a good idea to involve the workers in day-to-day decision by enacting more democratic, self-directing policies. The responsibilities and the incentives that are part of an average workers stay should be balanced in a way that naturally provide them decent reasons to work at this or that particular place. Which, obviously, is very rare because of the policies most companies enact with regards to their workers.
The conclusion
The goal of this piece was to give an overview about some abstract problems associated with teamwork.
These problems help us create a contrast in a way that highlights the less lauded advantages of teamwork. It is much more difficult to notice how one or two variables make the entire picture better when things are going smoothly than when they are not.
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