Disadvantages Of Team Working

1. Definition of teamworking.
Teamworking is the process of working together with a group of people in order to achieve a goal.

The advantages of teamworking.
• Team members can learn from each other.
• Communication and information sharing can improve.
• Ideas can be shared and the overall team experience is improved.
• Individuals can be given a chance to perform a number of different tasks.
• New approaches to tasks can be discovered.
• Teams help to develop a supportive working environment.
The disadvantages of teamworking.
• Some individuals may not have any experience of working in a team.
• Some individuals may not be compatible with team work.
• Conflict may arise between team members or other teams.
• Evaluation and rewards may be

• Some team members may experience less motivating jobs as part of a team.

2. Functions of teamworking.
• Teams are created when individuals with a common taste, liking, preference and attitude come together and work towards a shared goal.
• Teams play a very important role in organisations – organisations have a variety of teams e.g. sales teams, operation teams, human resources teams.
• Teams also play an important role in all our parts of life – sports teams, fundraising teams,

Virtual Teams
Virtual teams consist of individuals who are separated by distances and connected through computer technology to allow people to communicate online to achieve a common goal and are helpful when employees need to connect with each other and are located in different places.

Permanent Teams
Permanent teams perform on a permanent basis and do not end when the task is completed e.g. the human resources teams, the operations team, the administration team.
They are essential to any organisation.

3. Theory of Teamworking
Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development:
• This was first developed in 1965. Tuckman’s model is widely known as a basis for effective team building.
• Tuckman’s model is important because it recognises the fact that successful teams do not start off fully-formed.
• Tuckman’s theory recognises that teams grow through clearly defined stages, from their creation as groups of individuals, to unified, task-focused teams.

There are five stages of group development known as:

• Forming
• Storming
• Norming
• Performing
• Adjourning

Forming:
• The “forming” stage takes place when the team members first meet each