Benefits of Teamwork at Workplace

This article discusses the benefits of teamwork at the workplace, including fostering creativity and learning, building trust, conflict resolution skills, encouraging healthy risk-taking, and promoting a sense of ownership and responsibility. It also highlights the advantages of working in a team, such as generating new ideas, improving work ethics, and increasing employee engagement. The article concludes by discussing the beneficiaries of teamwork, including the organization, team members, and managers.

Benefits of Teamwork
at Workplace

Table of Contents
Table of Contents.............................................................................................................................2
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Benefits of team work............................................................................................................3
Advantages of working in a team...........................................................................................4
Arguments..............................................................................................................................4
Beneficiaries...........................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6
Appendix..........................................................................................................................................7

Introduction
Teamwork is related to the collaborative work of team members so that they can achieve
a common goal by performing their individual roles and responsibilities in an effective and
efficient manner. The members of an effective team are committed towards success of the team,
are interdependent, communicate effectively, monitor each other’s activities, are committed
towards team leadership and accountability etc. Teamwork thus plays an important role in
organisational success as they help in achieving the company objectives on time so that it can
successfully survive in the market.
Main Body
Benefits of team work
In an organisation teams play an important role in its success as they help in carrying out
the projects of a company and work together so that they are achieved on time and in an efficient
manner. Following are the various benefits of teamwork at workplace:
 Fosters creativity and learning: As people work together in a team they come up with
creative ideas through brainstorming and sharing their ideas so that better innovations can
be brought in company. It also help in finishing up the work on time as the team members
can work together enthusiastically together and distributer work among themselves so
that effective results can be achieved (Logan and Michael Malone, 2018).
 Builds trust: As the team members work together they also communicate openly in the
team so that they can share their ideas which help in trusting the other members and
building a cohesive bond among them which is essential in increasing trust among
members.
 Conflict resolution skills: As people with different ideas, culture, experiences
backgrounds etc. work together in a team often conflicts occur among them because of
disagreements or clash of different ideas and perspectives. Effective teams learn to
resolve their conflicts so that they can work together efficiently (Ruder, Stanford and
Gandhi, 2018).
 Encourages healthy risk-taking: People when work together becomes more confident to
take risks that can allow them to make efficient decisions which help in completing the
team work on time and in an effective manner.

 Promotes a sense of ownership and responsibility: Each person in the team is
individually and collectively responsible for their work which makes them accountable
for their actions and also helps in improving the quality of teamwork.
Advantages of working in a team
Working in teams in workplace is advantageous both for the team members and the
organisation as it help in collaborating the work of team members and coordinating them so that
they can use their skills and talents and help in achieving team goals in effective manner. It help
in generating new and creative ideas by the way of brainstorming and group discussions which
help in increasing the knowledge of members and also help them in becoming more creative with
their thoughts. Through new ideas businesses can meet the new and changing needs of customers
and can also help the members in being more confident about their abilities and skills (Green and
Brennan, 2017).
The team work also contribute towards creating a harmonious and friendly working
environment which help the companies in attracting more talented candidates for jobs and also
help in improving work ethics. The employee engagement also increase which is important for
an organisation to retain its employees and increase productivity of company.
Arguments
Teamwork is related with a group of people working together so that they can achieve a
common goal which help in bringing people with different skills, knowledge and abilities
together so that they can contribute towards achieving a common goal. There are various
advantages of working in teams like it promotes creativity, increase trust among members,
increases motivation, provides more learning opportunities, help in collaborating people etc.
which are important for an organisation to achieve its timely objectives (Advantages and
disadvantages of teamwork .2017).
However, there are also certain disadvantages of teamwork like there can be increased
conflicts among members because of the differences in their ideas, the team can also waste their
time on where to start, how to distribute responsibilities etc. Also as the work of team members
are interdependent on each other, delay in the work of one member can affect the overall team
results. Also people members can become confused and can deviate from their common goals
which can affect the overall team results (Arguments regarding teamwork .2019).

Beneficiaries
Team work can benefit the organisation, team members and managers in various ways and
help in achieving the common goals for which teams are formed. The organisations from small,
medium to large are all benefitted by the formation of teams as through which their targets are
achieved as the team members work towards achieving organisational goals. Teams help the
companies in meeting their project deadlines by working towards achieving them so that high
benefits can be achieved. Teams also help in coordinating the work of all the employees and
establishing a friendly working environment which is important for motivating the employees
towards achieving the company targets on time (Paguio and Jackling, 2016).
The staff members are benefitted as they learn about various ideas and also get to share
their own ideas and views which help in improving their value towards the company. This help
in motivating them and become job satisfied so that their work efficiency can increase. The
mangers of the company are also benefitted as it become easy to motivate the team members and
their skills and talents can help in achieving the team goals on time. It also help in motivating
managers to effectively manage the work in organisations so that high profits can be earned and
customer needs are efficiently fulfilled (Britton and Stephenson, 2017).
Conclusion
From this report it can be said that teams play an important role in the success of an
organisation as they can achieve their set targets on time and also the employees can be
motivated to better integrate their work so that effective working environment can be formed.
Also teamwork help in increasing innovation in company so that changing customer needs can
be efficiently met which help in sustainable survival of company.

References
Books and Journals
Logan, T.R. and Michael Malone, D., 2018. Nurses’ perceptions of teamwork and workplace
bullying. Journal of nursing management, 26(4), pp.411-419.
Ruder, S.M., Stanford, C. and Gandhi, A., 2018. Scaffolding STEM classrooms to integrate key
workplace skills: Development of resources for active learning environments. Journal
of College Science Teaching, 47(5), pp.29-35.
Green, B., Oeppen, R.S., Smith, D.W. and Brennan, P.A., 2017. Challenging hierarchy in
healthcare teams–ways to flatten gradients to improve teamwork and patient
care. British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 55(5), pp.449-453.
Paguio, R. and Jackling, B., 2016. Teamwork from accounting graduates: what do employers
really expect?. Accounting Research Journal.
Britton, E., Simper, N., Leger, A. and Stephenson, J., 2017. Assessing teamwork in
undergraduate education: a measurement tool to evaluate individual teamwork
skills. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 42(3), pp.378-397.
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