Advantages of Teamwork in the Workplace

Academic and
Professional Skills

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................4
Advantage 1: Foster creativity and Idea generation........................................................................4
What is the advantage ................................................................................................................4
Why is it advantageous ..............................................................................................................4
Advantage 2: Teamwork Boost employee morale and share workload .........................................5
What is the advantage ................................................................................................................5
Why is it advantageous...............................................................................................................5
who benefits from these advantages & How do they benefit......................................................5
CONCLUSION ..............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Team is defined as a group of people having different skills and tasks but working
together towards achievement of common goal and objective. Teamwork is mainly a
commitment that is shared among the working process of team to its desired goals. In teams, the
collective outcome is undertaken and members of team share various features & predefined goals
(Carder, 2019). Teamwork plays vital role in an organisation as it enables to accomplish tasks
effectively and timely. Along with this, it also provide an opportunity to employees to make
good relationship with others and improve their skills. The report will cover advantages of team
work with examples of real companies such as Amazon. In addition to this, there is discussion
about who gets advantage from teamwork and how they benefit.
MAIN BODY
It is saying that “Two heads are better than one” and due to which building team assist
companies to gain success and higher growth in the marketplace. It is determine that Teamwork
benefits workplace is various ways that are as follows:
Advantage 1: Foster creativity and Idea generation
What is the advantage
It is analysed that creativity prosper when people are working together as a team. In
addition to this, combining the ideas of team members develop more effective and appropriate
solution in an organisation. Teamwork maximize knowledge of an individual and also assist
team members to learn new skills that will help in gaining opportunities in future career
(Shichtman, 2019). Moreover, working in a team enables to share their thoughts and ideas to
other team members which excite then & foster both team as well as individual knowledge.
Why is it advantageous
It is advantageous because it helps an organisation to improve its performance level and
maintaining positive working culture at the workplace (Friedrich, Ulber and Friedrich, 2019). In
addition to this, development of something creative help company to attract large number of
people and attain competitive advantage at marketplace.
Example: Amazon's Two-Pizza teams