George N. Root's How Communication Affects Team Work

Organization, teamwork, and communication are all very important in a working environment. Working environments consist of many different employees that are responsible for many different tasks, but are all working as one. This is why an organization’s structure, teamwork, and the communication between the workers and the customers is always important for making the best decisions and responses in all situations, to influence the customers positively.

Just like structure in all living things on earth, organizational structure is the main foundation of a workforce. The definition for organizational structure is “a system that consists of explicit and implicit institutional rules and policies designed to outline how various work roles and responsibilities are delegated, controlled, and coordinated” (Investopedia, ). There are many different forms of structure for companies. Line structure and line and staff structure are a couple of the most common forms of structure. These structures are most common because of the simplicity, they have a pretty direct

In George N. Root’s article “How Communication Affects Teamwork”, posted on December 14th of 2016, Root discusses every single thing it takes for making communication efficient and effective. Communication is vital for successful teamwork, so there are many things regarding to this topic. Root also goes over how effective communication fails, and the possible outcomes.

Of all the specific things Root discussed, I think responsibility is the most important. Responsibility is the most important to me because in many of the teams I have been a part of, there are always a few individuals who slack off simply because they know they can. The second most important discussed topic, to me, is conflict. Conflict is an important topic because there is conflict at some point with almost any team, and you should know the best way possible to overcome