Information Sheet. 2.1-1 Building Relationship and Team Work
Information Sheet. 2.1-1 Building Relationship and Team Work
Information Sheet. 2.1-1 Building Relationship and Team Work
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BUILDING RELATIONSHIP AND TEAM WORK
Learning Objectives:
What is Team?
A smallest team consists of 2 people and the upper limit can be to the size
of the organization. The whole organization can work as a team if its members
develop a common style of working i.e., constructive and cooperative. This is
normally described as teamwork. An organization is viewed as a network of
teams, temporary and permanent.
For a team to achieve it’s common objectives, its members should share
its objectives and be identified wholeheartedly with them. By joining a team, the
individual member “signs on” the team’s objectives, he enters into a contract as
a condition of becoming a member of the team. A team member is willing to
forego personal autonomy to the extent necessary to achieve common objectives,
by joining a team one has to limit his freedom to do as he likes.
There cannot be a team without a leader who has ultimate responsibility for
deciding the degree to which autonomy of the team member has to be
constrained. He has to exercise his responsibility in a way that it does not erode
the commitment of the team members. He needs to establish the constraints
through a consultation process of problem solving and negotiations.
Aside from any required technical proficiency, a wide variety of social skills are
desirable for successful teamwork, including: