Importance of Teamwork
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 3
RESEARCH ON VARIOUS SOURCES…………………………………………...3 Research on books 3 Research on academic journals………………………………….......................4 Research on newspaper……………………........................................................4 Research on website Part I……………….…………………………………….4 Part II………………………………………..……………………………….5
CONCLUSIONS……………………………………………………………….…….5
REFERENCE LIST 7
BIBLIOGRAPY LIST………………………………………………………………8
INTRODUCTION
Working in teams has became increasingly common. “A team is a group of people who are interdependent with respect to information, resources, and skills and who seek to combine their efforts to achieve a common goal” (Thompson,2008). The role of work team has become more essential for an organization (Barbara and Stephen, 2007). The 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey illustrate that “72%of UK workplaces with over ten individual have least some employees in teams and of these 80% have extended teamwork to at least 60%of core employees”(Barbara, & Stephen, 2007). In addition, Huijgen and Pekruhl( 2001) report that about half of organization in Europe used teams (Barbara and Stephen,2007). Therefore, these evidences confirmed that teams are more and more important in the real world. With the high portion of adopting teamwork in business, lots of reasons are advanced for building teams, these are classified as importance of teamwork, and will be stressed out by researching on the following various resource materials.
INFORMATION FROM VARIOUS RESOURCES
1. Research on books
The benefits of having teams can be colossal, such as “enhanced flexibility, improved organization, added value and increased process conformance” (Oliver, 2001, PP184). Innovation and creativity was strongly emphasized by Parker (1996) as an importance of teamwork. He pointed out that some companies can outstand among others with “innovation developed out of the efforts of team players” (Parker, 1996,
INTRODUCTION 3
RESEARCH ON VARIOUS SOURCES…………………………………………...3 Research on books 3 Research on academic journals………………………………….......................4 Research on newspaper……………………........................................................4 Research on website Part I……………….…………………………………….4 Part II………………………………………..……………………………….5
CONCLUSIONS……………………………………………………………….…….5
REFERENCE LIST 7
BIBLIOGRAPY LIST………………………………………………………………8
INTRODUCTION
Working in teams has became increasingly common. “A team is a group of people who are interdependent with respect to information, resources, and skills and who seek to combine their efforts to achieve a common goal” (Thompson,2008). The role of work team has become more essential for an organization (Barbara and Stephen, 2007). The 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey illustrate that “72%of UK workplaces with over ten individual have least some employees in teams and of these 80% have extended teamwork to at least 60%of core employees”(Barbara, & Stephen, 2007). In addition, Huijgen and Pekruhl( 2001) report that about half of organization in Europe used teams (Barbara and Stephen,2007). Therefore, these evidences confirmed that teams are more and more important in the real world. With the high portion of adopting teamwork in business, lots of reasons are advanced for building teams, these are classified as importance of teamwork, and will be stressed out by researching on the following various resource materials.
INFORMATION FROM VARIOUS RESOURCES
1. Research on books
The benefits of having teams can be colossal, such as “enhanced flexibility, improved organization, added value and increased process conformance” (Oliver, 2001, PP184). Innovation and creativity was strongly emphasized by Parker (1996) as an importance of teamwork. He pointed out that some companies can outstand among others with “innovation developed out of the efforts of team players” (Parker, 1996,
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