Teamwork: Advantages, Disadvantages, and Tuckman's Theory

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
 INRODUCTION
 IMPORTANCE OF TEAM WORK
 RESISTANCE TO GROUP WORK
 ADVANTAGES OF GROUP WORK
 DISADVNATAGES OF GROUP WORK
 HOW IS TEAM WORK BETTER THAN INDIVIDUAL WORK
 HOW IS TEAM WORK BETTER THAN INDIVIDUAL WORK
 TUCKMAN’S THEORY OF TEAM WORK
 GUIDELINES FOR EFFECTIVE TEAM MEMBERRSHIP
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES

INTROUCTION
WHAT IS TEAM ?
A team is a group of individual who comes
together in order to attain a common goals.
The individuals in the team share the
responsibility and workloads among them in
order to achieve the agreed milestones.
“Talent wins games But Teamwork wins
championship”

IMPORTANCE OF TEAM
WORK
 Establish common grounds for
fulfillment of organizational objectives.
 Teamwork entrust knowledge and trust
among all the members.
 The model of effective team work
facilitate the sharing of information and
knowledge among one another.

RESISTANCE TO GROUP WORK
Individuals in the team can resist or might be
uncooperative due to variety of reasons. It is
important top deal with the causes of resistance in
the best possible manner.
 Identify the source of resistance by interviewing
each team member.
 create a list of objection in order to deal with them.
 Organize education programs to show the benefit of
team building process.
 Encourage team based environment along with
designing of incentive schemes.

ADVANTAGES OF GROUP
WORK
 Team work explores an potential talent
of individual.
 It provide an opportunity to improve
self-managed learnings.
 It develop a synergy and provide a
problem solving approach to the team.
 Teamwork foster better cooperation
among the team.

DISADVNATAGES OF GROUP
WORK
 There may arise conflict of interest
among the team member.
 Lack of compatibility leads to unequal
participation in the team.
 Individuals in team may be incapable to
handle the complex situation and make
good decisions.

HOW IS TEAM WORK BETTER
THAN INDIVIDUAL WORK
• Focus on agreed goals
• Two Heads are better than one.
• Mutual support
• Combining individual unique
qualities of different individual.
• Solve problem and interprets
results
• Work on Individual and
making decision
independently.
• Lack of new point of view
• Lack of good working
atmosphere.
• Individuals are
incompatible to handler the
complex task
Conclusion- Team work creates better outcome and thus use
resources in a proper manner in order to produce rich ideas.

CHARACTERISTICS
OF EFFECTIVE TEAM
 Clear Goals- Members in the team must have clear and transparent
towards achieving goals.
 Relevant skills- Individuals must be confident and possess
interpersonal skill to carry out the task.
 Mutual trust- There must be mutual trust and integrity among the
team members.
 Good Communication- there must be healthy flow of
communication among the team members for receiving the
[potential feedback from the team members.
 Unified Commitment- Requires fidelity and dedication among the
team members.

TUCKMAN’S THEORY OF
TEAM WORK
There are various stages of team development
to achieve the stated goal or objectives. Thus,
the stages of team development relate to
success of the project. Thus, Tuckman’s model
comprises of four stage.
 Forming
 Storming
 Norming
 Performing

Guidelines for Effective Team
Membership
 Team members must coordinate and
mutually exchange information to share
with one another.
 willingness to make effective
contribution to the team.
 Enthusiastic and committed to provide
new ideas to the team.
 Actively participate to face the
challenges faced by the team.