The experts at Novotec Consultores affirm: "None of us is as smart as us." Or what, in the words of Bradley L. Kirkman, professor in the department of business administration at the Joseph M. Bryan School and Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, says: «Teamwork is worth more than the sum of the contributions of the individualities that compose it «.
Peter Drucker would illustrate this statement with a music band.
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This leads us to the conclusion that teams require individualized knowledge and experts in different skills. There is no ideal number, because it depends on the type of task, the resources available, among others.
The experts of the Díaz de Santos publishing house establish that the criteria must be delimited by the following situations:
- When the probability that teamwork does not lead to a better final result in terms of speed, efficiency or quality than individual work. When individual competition leads to lower performance, instead of higher performance. When the activity requires different knowledge or specialties. When the fusion of work into joint tasks or areas of responsibility has meaning for those who are involved. When the stress level of people is too high. When the systems require frequent adjustments in activities and performance. of this.
For psychology professor García Saiz when speaking of criteria it is important to speak of:
- «Group structure»: understood as «the possible differences in status (which can be based on hierarchical criteria) between the members of the groups and work teams (GET), the different roles they play (which may come from the different types of participation among its members), the existence of internal operating rules (the "culture" of the group) and the cohesion that gives strength (feeling of union between its members) to the whole ". Origin of the group: imposed" from outside ", by of an agreement between its members or «emergent». The physical context must be taken into account, because it conditions it to the extent that it incorporates environmental factors (low light…), the physical condition as well as the furniture depends and has to do with the territory in which the GET is located.Finally, consider the organizational context with these determining factors: culture, climate, resources, rewards, objectives and tasks, feedback, technology and organizational processes.
These theories of Professor García Saiz can be visualized in his article "Factors involved in the performance of groups and work teams: antecedent model and conditions".
To introduce ourselves more and more to the subject, I find it interesting to present the basic principles of the team established by Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith in their book "Team Wisdom" (Editorial Díaz de Santos, APD).
The vertices of the triangle indicate what the teams produce: the sides and the center describe the elements of the discipline necessary for this to happen. These principles are based on the need to respond to the existing natural resistance to move above individual roles and responsibility.
