Is Teamwork Important in Organization?

Is Teamwork Important in Organization?

Teamwork is also a well-discussed subject in a good organization or business management as well as human behavioural science.  Market is battle field and competitors are rivals. Without people and without unity none can win the war. Team members may come together for a number of different reasons, but the goal is only one - to achieve peak performance and experience success! Teamwork is like a group of ants carrying a big leaf which makes the job easier and more fun. Along can’t success all side. In achieve an organization goal teamwork is very important to success.  Hardware is machismo and Software is the people in the team work. In today’s world teamwork plays a vital role for all kind of organization. Organization team member work or responsibility demand as like family member work responsibility. As much the organization is team oriented as much is the probability to succeed. I am going to use Mrs. Annie’s words on teamwork: “Teamwork is like our human body, each part has its special and irreplaceable value and function, when working together harmoniously can create miracles”.  When people come together to accomplish a single goal, it becomes easier to achieve. Team members should understand and believe that thinking, planning, decisions and actions are better when done cooperatively.  Teamwork performance depends on trust, cooperation, communication, and personal responsibility. However, teams are made of people who may have different ideas, individual needs and preferences.  In the most active teamwork is produced when all the individuals involved match their contributions and work towards a common goal.

In my understanding, Teamwork can be defined as the activities of a group of people who co-operates and shares their skills and knowledge in order to accomplish a common goal that benefits all. Teamwork is like a hen leading her chicks looking for the best food available.  All members must be patient, have a good understand of people and culture with strong motivation and mutual respect. In teamwork, team leader should inform team member’s jobs and also team members understand and believe that thinking, planning, decisions and actions are better when done cooperatively. Mainly in teamwork have no rules, teamwork will be the norm. Team members work interdependently and work to both personal and team goals, and every member understand their goals are able best by mutual support. An effective and efficient team should accomplish more other any individual could have. In team-work it is humanize and maximizes individual contribution. Teams may fail because of a number of reasons, one of the leading factors being that team members are unwilling to perform well unless they know the benefits and consequences of their performance. From my studies and also my understanding in organization effective team-work I find three conditions, this is very important for organization teamwork-     

1. A team needs to have a real independent function,
2. An effective team leader should rise to the position from within,
3. A team needs to have a definable and measurable goal.

But it is very difficult to find many good teams? Dr. Kazuo has invented a teamwork mode called Ameoba for his organization purpose. Still, teamwork success is possible when its members and leader jointly committed to a measurable, achievable, and shared goal in a supporting, encouraging and uplifting environment. But to do so clear understanding on what a perfect teamwork in organization actually this is my take for best organization in best teamwork-   

1.       Develop a winning attitude among all team members,
2.       Develop a strong leader, who led to the go ahead,
3.       Clear the organization goal or team-work objective,
4.       Makes all employees feel that they’re valued members of the team,
5.       Uses a team approach to develop and utilize the unique talents of each employee,
6.       Recognizes and rewards team-oriented behaviours and actions,
7.       Consistently emphasizes the importance of teamwork in the company,
8.       Builds highly productive teams.

We see that without teamwork in business world competition stay really impossible. We also come to the realization that; it’s easy to form a team, but not so easy to deliver effective and efficient teamwork. Some teamwork fails and makes the organization down. Teamwork fail because of no result for being team successful performance, unclear common goal, lower commitment, poor leadership, no responsibilities as the member of team, ineffective communication, lack of support, lack of cooperation, lack of capability. So, in order to make teamwork successful in an organization, the member itself should understand how to work with each other by having a good communication, strong commitment, share goal, responsibility, and mutual respect. Another challenge for effective teamwork is that it is a joint effort which means individual contribution may not be properly recognized and the result of the work may not be most satisfactory.  

Therefore, it requires us to remember that;

“Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort.

Full effort is full victory.” - Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

When every team member has given his or her best effort, fulfilling individual responsibilities, we can say to ourselves that full victory accomplished!  If we can continue our self-improvement and exercise self-discipline, greater future victory ensured!