Importance of Teamwork in Workplace: A Comprehensive Report

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Managing People and Systems
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Table of Contents
Managing People and Systems......................................................................................................................1
Table of Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
Importance of teamwork in the workplace....................................................................................................3
A brief introduction....................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................................7
References......................................................................................................................................................8
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Importance of teamwork in the workplace
A brief introduction
Teamwork means a group of people who work together to achieve a set target or goal in an
effective and efficient way (Massenberg, et. al., 2015). Teamwork is really an important task at
any workplace to achieve a full-fledged goal of a company or an organization.
Importance’s are as follows:
1. Esprit de corps: When a group of people works together they established a feeling of mutual
loyalty and also the feeling of pride which increases the morale of the team as they work together
to achieve their set goal very well. Understanding develops between the worker working as a
team in an organization.
2. Help in Problems: While working every person face some of the other problems at a workplace
so by working in a team that problem can be solved easily by one or the other worker by his
Intelligence and know how helping each other whenever required.
3. Right decisions: In teamwork, there is always a need for taking a decision. Decisions can be
right or wrong. When we work in a team at the workplace it is most probably the chance that we
come to the right decision at the last by the mutual consent of each and every person who is a
member of a team.
4. New innovations: team enables new innovations as one or the other person in a team presents
new ideas and new information are in front of everyone every day to be updated in every manner
to achieve the goal satisfactorily and with no remorse after that. New innovations are key for a
successful working organization.
5. Motivation: when people work together they form mutual trust on each other whenever there is
a mishap or anything goes wrong people in a team motivates each other to step ahead in a right
way and help one another to achieve their goals (Schmutz & Eppich, 2017). They carry
everyone with themselves inspired and motivated to achieve quality goals.
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6. Completing goals: when a work is done by a team at a workplace it is more likely to achieve
incomplete goals successfully and carry out their work effectively and efficiently. Goals are
achieved by the mutual interest of every member of the team. This helps an organization to raise
and flourish (Lantz, et. al., 2015).
7. Competitive environment: when a work is done by more than two people at a workplace the
feeling of competitiveness arises hence help the team to work effectively and put all his potential
in his work to make every possible work to achieve the set goals or target.
8. Unity and trust: working as a team always comprises the feeling of unity and trust. Without
which an organization is disabled. Without these two the goals of any organization cannot be
achieved or completed satisfactorily. When once unity and trust created between workers of the
same team people can serve someone's family if someone has decreased due to the accident
happened in the workplace while carrying out the work.
9. Learning opportunity: when people work together as a team in a workplace they create a
learning opportunity for every worker working. The learning process leaves a worker member in
engrossed and interested in doing the task effectively and efficiently to achieve of certain goal
which a company has set in advance.
10. Quality work: it is a well-known fact that when a group of people works together for a targeted
goal the quality of their work enhances by experimenting and applying better technology and
equipment, their know-how comes out to be in fruitful results and quality work. Quality work
enhances the output of an individual to accept his hidden capabilities and potential to do much
better work.
11. Establish good image: when people meet each other daily in a routine work at a workplace as a
team they establish a good image in front of each other by their behavior and act accordingly, the
smooth and the hard work they do to carry out their work in an effective way. Image of one
person in front of another makes them aware of their behavior and manners which they should
follow at a workplace necessarily (Rosen, 2019).
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12. Goodwill: when people work together as a team they achieve high-level goals which result in
better reputation of an organization as compared to other organization and the Goodwill of the
firm becomes better (Reyes & DiGiulio, 2019).
13. Strong connection: as the teamwork on a daily basis every individual connect one person to
another which establish a good connection between them and their relationship becomes stronger
no stress at the workplace hence results in a better service and a good quality product.
14. Brilliant future: when teamwork and achieve a successful platform they start getting various
offers having bright future where companies who bid Sky High prices to offer them a dream job
in their organization at the prices they ask for. If an individual accepts an offer he enjoys a bright
future organization with the other worker with the same team members.
15. Regular engagement: people working in an organization daily as a routine at the workplace
regularly engage with their supervisors and leaders in the team which make a better relationship
with their seniors and employers resulting in the better workplace.
16. Belongingness: when our teamwork in an organization an environment of belongingness is
created when every individual in an in a team he feels like home and create a good relationship
between all of them in an organization. A good understanding creates between every individual
forming a team helps easy carry out the work.
17. Saviour: an organization is prone to have mishaps or any accidents. People working in a team
act as a savior and can detect any miss happening or any hazard which can take place at any time
anyplace the time of working at a workplace to save any person in risk in their organization.
18. Settlement of conflicts: conflicts are common in every organization where there is work a group
of people conflict happens so whenever conflicts arise the management forces team to resolve
their conflicts themselves so that they can handle the situation efficiently and conflict resolves
without any hardship between two people or group of them (Thomson, et. al., 2015).
19. Leadership: in every organization, a leader leads a team who work in a systematic way in a
workplace to optimize various set goals or target of an organization. A team follows the leader
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carefully his instructions and system to get favorable results anytime for an organization which
will result in a successful enterprise.
20. Regular feedbacks: in an organization feedbacks are must to maintain the standards of an
organization. If an individual works then he looks out for a feedback of an, employer or
supervisor while when a team works a person who works in a team point out Mistakes of one
another and that work as a feedback for a team’s work which helps them to achieve set goals and
targets for an organization (Thomson, et. al., 2015).
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Conclusion
According to above points, we come to know that teamwork is very important at a workplace to
carry out various works at a time this importance makes clear that teamwork enables Unity e
loyalty and belongingness between each other in an organization which helps an organization to
be successful Enterprise.
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References
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A strategy for dissolving the paradox between standardized work and team proactivity by
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 Massenberg, A.C., Spurk, D. and Kauffeld, S., 2015. Social support at the workplace,
motivation to transfer and training transfer: a multilevel indirect effects model.
International Journal of Training and Development, 19(3), pp.161-178.
 Reyes, D. and DiGiulio, M., 2019. The Importance of Team in Transforming Practice.
 Rosen, N., 2019. Teamwork and the bottom line: groups make a difference. Routledge.
 Schmutz, J.B. and Eppich, W.J., 2017. Promoting learning and patient care through
shared reflection: a conceptual framework for team reflexivity in health care. Academic
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 Thomson, K., Outram, S., Gilligan, C. and Levett-Jones, T., 2015. Interprofessional
experiences of recent healthcare graduates: A social psychology perspective on the
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