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In modern days, There is no traditional function like planning, research, product development , design, production, marketing and selling that is not being done more and more by teams. We live in a time in which the team-centred organization is becoming less the exception and more the norm. Some of the most dominant and successful companies in the world already function largely as team-centred organizations. There are many, many more companies that may not be fully team-centred, but which make extensive use of teamwork and teams. Teamwork and teams have become the overstrategies and common factors in all sustained initiatives . They have become cental to total quality management, continuous process improvement, total customer service, re-engineering and all other management control.
Survival is about performance, and teams are one of the best ways to achieve
performance and improve performance.
Nonetheless, teams usually do outperform other groups and individuals.
They represent one of the best ways to support
the broad-based changes necessary for the high-performing organization.
Superior teamwork and superior work teams had been demonstrated to be
the only consistent strategies for producting superior services and products.