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People have social needs and objectives that need the concurrence of other people to be satisfied and / or achieved. This is the rationale of human groups.
The same happens in organizations that are formed by people with social needs and goals. Thus, in organizations there are also groups, whether formal (those whose structure is determined by the direction of the company and that group people according to their position in the hierarchy), or informal groups, based on the attraction between the people who are, regardless of their position in the organization chart. Both types of groups are needed for both organizations, like people that build them, can achieve their goals and objectives.
The social, economic and technological changes of recent years have created a new situation in which businesses need to do more with less, with less sized templates, formed by substantially less skilled employees with higher levels of responsibility. To have the best of staff and know they orient towards achieving the overall objectives are key challenges that determine the success of an organization.
In this context, teamwork is one response to the challenge of productivity. The cohesion of the work teams, promoting the spirit of cooperation, identification of people with business objectives and common interests and efforts towards the common goal are key issues on which work to cement the success or failure .
But teamwork goes beyond that. It is a technique of organization and an operating philosophy that generates good results in all productive sectors and in companies of all sizes. Teamwork is, in short, a new way of understanding the business.
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