what´s the difference between group work and team work??

Question

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Answer 1

Team, Working Group or Neither?

1. Working group: No significant incremental performance need or opportunity that would require it to become a team. The members interact primarily to share information, best practices, or perspectives and to make decisions to help each individual perform within his or her area of responsibility. There is no call for either a team approach or a mutual accountability requirement.

2. Pseudo-team: This is a group for which there could be a significant, incremental performance need or opportunity, but it has not focused on collective performance and is not really trying to achieve it. It has no interest in shaping a common purpose or set of performance goals, even though it may call itself a team. Pseudo-teams are the weakest of all groups in terms of performance impact. In pseudo-teams, the sum of the whole is less than the potential of the individual parts. They almost always contribute less to company performance needs than working groups because their interactions detract from each member's individual performance without delivering any joint benefits. For a pseudo-team to have the option of becoming a potential team, the group must define goals so it has something concrete to do as a team that is a valuable contribution to the company.

3. Potential team: There is a significant, incremental performance need, and it really is trying to improve its performance impact. Typically it requires more clarity about purpose, goals, or work products and more discipline in hammering out a common working approach. It has not yet established collective accountability. Potential teams abound in organizations. When a team (as opposed to a working group) approach makes sense, the performance impact can be high. The steepest performance gain comes between a potential team and a real team; but any movement up the slope is worth pursuing.

4. Real team: This is a small number of people with complementary skills who are equally committed to a common purpose, goals, and working approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable. Real teams are a basic unit of performance. The possible performance impact for the real team is significantly higher than the working group.

5. High-performance team: This is a group that meets all the conditions of real teams and has members who are also deeply committed to one another's personal growth and success. That commitment usually transcends the team. The high performance team significantly outperforms all other like teams, and outperforms all reasonable expectations given its membership. It is a powerful possibility and an excellent model for all real and potential teams.

The definitions above are used in the T·E·A·M·S manual (Kane & Associates' team survey, development and continuous improvement process) with permission of Harvard Business School Press, from Wisdom of Teams by Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith, Copyright 1993.

These distinctions between team and work group are very important, because the operating level of a group affects:

1. The ability of groups of people to contribute to their organization

2. The levels of personal growth and satisfaction of group members

3. The return on resources (time, talent, money, etc.) expended by the group

4. The requirements for operating, growing and maintaining the group

The Differences Between a Work Group and a Real Team

A careful study of the preceding definitions reveals fundamental factors that distinguish between work groups and real teams. These factors are the presence or absence of:

(1) an incremental performance need or opportunity

(2) true interdependence and

(3) real shared accountability.

Answer 2

Difference Between Group And Team

Answer 3

Imagine your favorite 80s TV show, the Transformers:

Work groups can be described as placing a bunch of Dinobots together to complete a certain project, such as defeating another work group, the Constructicons. While each Dinobot possesses unique skills that can complete independent tasks, the Constructicons have the advantage of also being a work team. They work in a coordinated environment where the output from one robot can affect the performance of the entire team. Teams have the ability to increase performance at a more efficient level, such as when they form the powerful teamwork unit, Devestator.

And Devestator always comes out on top. That is, until another teamwork unit such as Superion or Predaking kicks his butch back to Cybertron!

Answer 4

group work is a project in which everyone, or different people, get different jobs... team work, people do things together