Teams: Why People Come Together

From the very beginning there was nobody in the whole world EXISTING in all the aspects of this word, alone. There were Adam (you remember his lonely life at the Beginning) AND Eve, there were tribes in prehistoric times, there are clans, families, teams and organizations now.

The values of each organization in our society are people: they are leading power and driving force. The question “Why people always come together?” normally appears while discussing the purpose of the team. And firstly we have to define both terms: “group” and “team”.

“A working group is a collection of individuals who work mainly on their own but interact socially and share information and best practices.” (Boddy, 2008, p.564).

A team is ‘a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable’ (Boddy, 2008, p.696).

Nobody on the Earth is unimprovable and identical to another person; each one of us has come to this world with his or her unique qualities, aims and values and plays a special role within the organization and a team.

Creation and development of the teams is natural and inevitable, because:

  • People spontaneously form teams for protection of the interests (it can be trade unions, political parties)
  • People can satisfy many needs only in case of belonging to any team (the ancient person could  gain some food, for example, kill an animal only with a group of hunters and in collective people are better trained);

  • An organizer creates them for performance of any work (it can be production teams, various committees and boards), but the purpose facing the team, sometimes cannot even be recognized;

 

(Naumov, 2003, view)

Thus, the accessory to a team helps the person:

  • To satisfy the social needs;
  •  To generate itself as the person (As Maslow said: “people value a positive response from others, which helps to build and maintain their self-esteem” (Boddy, 2008, p.560);
  •  To receive the help and support an achievement of the own purposes which not always can coincide with the purposes of a team or the organization;
  • To acquire the right to participate in the joint activity bringing certain, but not necessarily financial, benefit. (Boddy, 2008, view)
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 We can possibly approve, that there are three base ideas in a basis of creation of the teams:

 1. Members of a team are incorporated by the general intentions, the purposes and problems.

 2. Members of a team are interdependent; they require each other help and assistance for achievement of the team and personal purposes.

3. Members of a team accept the statement, that the teamwork is more effective. Influence of a team on opinions and behaviour of people working in it is proved. For example, there was an experiment lead by Vladimir Bekhterev and described in ...

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