LE 03

TEAMWORK 

Team Work is probably the most important aspect of any organization. A person might be very effective when working individually but when he is working in an organization he should be able to work in a team, have mutual understanding with all the team members,work towards achieving the organizational goals rather than individual goals.

Now let us look at an example about teamwork and its importance.

VALLEY CROSSING 

Task: Three persons should cross the valley using a long stick.

Now we have two ways to do the task

1. Place the stick such that it acts like a bridge between the valleys and each member individually goes on it to reach the other side.

2. All the team members should hold and rest the stick on their shoulder and while one member is crossing the valley the other two should balance it.

If we properly analyze the two methods the first one seems to be very risky and the chance of completing the task is very less. Here we come across another important aspect of management called Planning. In any organization even if we have all the resources to complete a task but there is no proper planning we cannot do anything with our resources but drain them. So one point we should note is

               “The Beauty of Management lies in Planning”.            

  Now in the second method we can see that as a team the three members can perform the task effectively with proper understanding and effective communication among themselves.The picture below gives an idea about the process.

                      

There are totally 9 steps involved in completing the task and the step by step procedure can be seen in the picture below.

                         

Now from the steps we can see that 

All three member roles are similar but not same and are equivalent in terms of total effort and risk.

All three member roles have equal distribution of 

•   Risky (1) situations  
•   Half risky (2) situations
•   No risk (2) situations

All three member roles are designed equally strong and responsible.

All three members were equal contributors for the overall task and the communication and feedback among the members was instantaneous.Interdependence among the three member roles was made crucial.So we can see that difficult tasks can be completed effectively when there is a proper planning and teamwork which is the main reason for this task to get completed, gives us the idea about how important it is in an organization to work in teams and achieve the organizational goals.

       Structuring the Team roles and Designing the solution for completing the task is the main criteria of the management and another point we can make a note of is that in organizations 

"Managers should be solution Designers". 

          To conclude we can say that Teamwork plays a very important role in any organization and people are always the assets of the organization.But one thing we should keep in mind while creating organizations is that "Organizations should be designed as per the customers and then people should be accordingly adjusted" but not the other way around.