What is the importance and benefits of teams in organisations?

Question

This is part of a managing teams project information search

Answer 1

I'm actually studying this right now in my business communications class at Ohio University. There can many benefits to teams in organizations as there can be many downfalls.
Pros:
1) Increased information and knowledge. By pooling the resources of several people instead of just one or two the team has access to more information which helps in decision making.
2) Increased diversity of views. Team members bring a variety of perspectives into the whole decision making process.
3) Higher performance levels. It can increase the amount of creativity and energy in workers. It also will cause accountability of each member to ensure (ideally) everyone is doing their best.

Anyway, there's a few. Hope that helps!

Answer 2

Teams are in all the business textbooks thanks in part to Peters and Waterman, "Thriving on Chaos". But when I was in business school, my working class mates insisted the team concept was a dead loser, insisting that some team mates did all the work, some did none, and all got paid the same.

Answer 3

well if people pull together, then more gets done in a group than by loners, but this does mean that all members have to be motivated to work together in the first place!

Answer 4

teams can aid competition in the workplace and as such generate more business