Why do organizations support the idea of building teamwork in the workplace?

In most organizations, there are several groups and teams. In fact, the organization is an entity created through groups of people to gain a common purpose. The groups and teams are more than a shapeless collection of individuals. Each individual carries his or her character, attitudes, experiences, and preferences too so a group of the individual is, in fact, a complicated entity with challenging interactions. In perfect working condition, we expect that the interrelationship of team members find a way to better performance. To achieve high levels of performance and reach for shared goals, interactions among team members and the potential for working towards the same goals should be highly concerned. But in reality, most groups are composed of individuals from various social, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds. These different backgrounds bring about diversified levels of skill, creativity, knowledge, perspective, and expertise.

• ·        These differences are two-sided; there are both bright sides and dark sides. The strength of a diversified team is that in many cases the consistency of the idea may cause deficient and faulty decisions and performance. But on the dark side, these controversies may change into a trigger for disputes. However, there are several methods and approaches that seek to decrease disputes and ease the working in the teams.  One main approach for building an effective team and improving the performance of its members is to change it into a flexible entity in which the ultimate goal is to adapt to changing business environment. These goals can only be achieved by working on skills and capabilities like the ability to resolve disputes and problem-solving.

For having such a team, experts suggest that team members should feel like they are the constructing blocks of the group. Meanwhile, they should have an outstanding feeling about the importance of their membership in the team and about the team itself. All of the members should have a solid understanding of the importance of being a team member. They should know that teamwork allows them to gain the defined outcomes and the results are completely collective.

• Creating and keeping inspiring, engaged, and high-performing teams are ideal for every company and organization. Yet, inconsistencies and conflicts among the team members remain a challenging issue for each company and organization. So managers and leaders must have the competency and ability to build efficient groups and resolve disputes within the teams and make them work smoothly. It will enhance and boost team performance and pave the way for group success. But it is not easy for managers and leaders to control the conflicts within the team as the nature of creating teams is related to assigned responsibilities to individuals. So managers need to develop a new set of capabilities that enables them to adjust and identify the borders of direct involvement in the team affairs and controlling.

• But the benefits of teamwork are sufficient to convince the managers to accept and overcome related challenges. There are numerous benefits and advantages to teamwork. These benefits include a broader opportunity to choose the methods and approaches, higher levels of dedication and loyalty, higher levels of obligation to have good performance, increased efficiency due to sharing ideas, saving time in reaching a common point, filling in gaps in ideas, connecting viewpoints, easing the goal setting, creating the basis for constructive conversations, enriching and spreading the information with in the organization, regularizing and standardizing  practices, observing activities, inspiring and encouraging employees to gain best outcomes and paving the way for better performance.
• Finally, building a growing and robust team could be provocative, challenging, and frustrating. to overcome the obstacles and to build a successful and high-performance work team, developing essential skills for both managers and employees is an imperative