Individual Report on Team Working: Benefits and Challenges - MOD003325

This report delves into the multifaceted aspects of team working, examining both its advantages and disadvantages within an organizational context, using Sainsbury's as a case study. It highlights the benefits of teamwork, such as fostering creativity, enhancing learning, building trust, and improving communication skills. The report also explores the challenges associated with team working, including the absence of team identity, difficulties in decision-making, poor communication, and the inability to resolve conflicts. The analysis further discusses why these challenges arise, such as role uncertainty, lack of trust, and unclear goals, impacting both employees and the organization's productivity and objectives. The report concludes that while team working offers numerous benefits, organizations and team members must proactively address the potential challenges to maximize its effectiveness and achieve desired outcomes.

Group Working

Table of Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
TOPIC A..........................................................................................................................................1
What are the benefits of team working?.................................................................................1
Why is it advantageous to work in a team?............................................................................2
TOPIC B..........................................................................................................................................2
What are the challenges of team working?.............................................................................2
Why is it a challenge?.............................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Group working is a form through which the group of people will get associated and get
benefit of corporative learning as it encompasses the better outcomes of the particular task as
compared to when task done individually (Bhagra, 2018). It includes the experts that work all
together to achieve some specific objectives within certain period of time. This report is based on
the Sainsbury's that is the second largest chain of supermarket and was founded in the year 1869
by John James Sainsbury in UK. This report includes benefits as its advantage as well as the
different challenges of the team working.
MAIN BODY
TOPIC A
What are the benefits of team working?
Team working “two head are better than one” is the collaborative effort of the group by
which they have collectively put their efforts to accomplish the task in effective manner. There
are some of the different benefits of the team working that are as defined below as:
Foster creativity and learning: Creativity will get developed when different mindset
people work all together as the brainstorming ideas stale the viewpoints and that create more
efficient outcomes. The teamwork will get maximise the knowledge of the workplace at it helps
a lot to learn the new skills that could be used further in the career.
Blends complementary strength: Team workings build the talent in the teammates and
with the creative thinking of one the co-worker also get shine. In the team all the individual
shares their abilities and the collective skills will get enhance and improvised (Black, 2018).
Build trust: While working within the team the trust will get build and the strong
relationship will get developed and all the individual share the strong bond that endure the
conflicts.
Teaches conflict resolution skills: Complex situation and the conflicts inevitable arises
while working in a team as all the employee have come from different background and have
diverse working style as well. In this employee try to solve the different conflicts by their own
instead of turning to the management thus conflict resolution skills get developed.
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Why is it advantageous to work in a team?
There are some of the different advantages while working within the team and that is as
defined below as:
Division of work: It is the biggest advantages while working in team the entire individual
have performed their work instead of look forwards to project individually and collective efforts
cut down the workload appreciably.
Shared responsibility when things go wrong: If it might that project get failed then all
the team member stand and take responsibility instead of blaming each other. Thus everyone is
trying to work with 100% efficiency thus probability of failure get decreased.
Improvise communication skills: The team get more success as they have made
effective communication with each other and then takes the validate decision making thus the
work will get performed with more smoothness.
It is more beneficial for the Sainsbury's as it improvised the productivity and the
efficiency by which the working ability and performance will get more developed by which
company measured more growth and better development (Byer, 2018).
TOPIC B
What are the challenges of team working?
The teamwork makes and fulfils the dream work of the company but sometime it turns
into more challenges and that are as defined below as:
Absence of team identity: It might that the team members didn’t feel shared
accountability as per the objective of team then the lack of effort and commitment will get raised
by which the conflicts get takes place.
Difficulty in decision making: Sometime the team members have more rigidity and thus
they get adhere about their position and makes argument only and didn’t take participate to get
better result. .
Poor communication: The team members may start interrupt each other and also start
talking to over each other. It is must that there must be more silence and balance while
conducting the meeting and in this the allusion will create where all will nod in between the
arguments and didn’t get agree on any prospect.
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Inability to resolve conflicts: It can’t be resolved as all the team members make the
personal attack on each other and have worked with aggressive gesture by which the tension will
get heightened.
Lack of participation: As the team member didn’t able to achieve the goals within the
timely manner and it is due to the poor attendance and less participation as well as engagement
during the meetings.
Why is it a challenge?
The team work promotes the productivity and the creativity but sometime have face some
different challenges by which some negative or not favoured result will get developed and that
challenges are as defined below as:
Role uncertainty: There is a difference while working individual or as the team as in
team the responsibilities will get shared in between the team members. Thus it is hard for those
who never worked in a team thus they didn’t have clarity of what to do and what not to
(Crawford, 2018).
Lack of trust: As if person work individually then they have take the decision by their
own and while working in team maximum decision will be taken by making the decision with all
members. Thus it is harder to get believe in someone whom the person didn’t have any
connection before.
Unclear goals: Some of the employee have worked even more better while working
individually and have make better contribution but it will not remain while working in the team.
The major reason behind the conflicts is ambiguity of the goals that directly affect the
productivity as well.
In this both the employee and the Sainsbury’s get affected a lot as the individual
working behaviour will get affected by which the team didn’t achieve its goals by which more
the company didn’t achieve its objectives in timely manner thus their profit also get decreased.
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CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above report that the team working has a lot of benefits
within the company as it improvises the probability of the effective outcome. There are some
different benefits as like more flexibility, motivation, fosters the creativity, blends
complementary and many others too. It has been beneficial to both the company and the
employee as both will get the better result in time manner. On the other hand there are some
challenges as well like absence of the identity, difficult decision making etc and it will also get
suffered by both the employee and the organisation.
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REFERENCES
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Byer, N.A., 2018. Team systems engineering and the role of enterprise modelling technologies
(Doctoral dissertation, Loughborough University).
Crawford, S.M., 2018. Multidisciplinary team working contributes to lung cancer survival. Bmj,
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Felstead, A. and et. al., 2019. The determinants of skills use and work pressure: A longitudinal
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Powell, D., 2019. Implementing Peer Evaluation of Team Working Behaviours: Practical
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