Conflict Resolution In Work Teams

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Throughout our lives we are all exposed to work in teams such as participating in team sports like basketball, baseball, soccer, etc. Each and every one of these athletic activities or sports requires the interaction of all members of the team in order to achieve a common goal, in this case victory. The interaction that results in the efforts of a group of people working together towards a common goal provides each member with the sense that they belong to the group and the results produced by their group must be considered as good or positive.
Working in teams offers the business the same opportunities that the team sports bring to the members of the team as well as the team itself. This provides businesses to obtain more and better results from employees while maintaining a good level of job satisfaction from the employees.
Based on the What is Teamwork? (Biech, E. 2002), working in teams presents the following 12 benefits: More input leads to better ideas and decisions, Higher quality output, Involvement of everyone in the process, Increased ownership and buy-in by members, Higher likelihood of implementation of new ideas, Widens the circle of communication, Shared information means increased learning, Increased understanding of other people’s perspectives, Increased opportunity to draw on individual strengths, Ability to compensate for individual weaknesses, and Provides a sense of security and Develops personal relationships. Each and every one of these benefits provides opportunities for greater effectiveness at work thus directly benefiting the business.
In the other hand, there are 12 disadvantages that working in teams bring. These are: Requires more time, Can lead to many meetings, Often difficult to schedule mutual time, requires individual to give more of themselves, May take longer to make a decision, May be used as an excuse for a lack of individual performance, Personality conflicts are magnified, Disagreements ca...