First, explain whether or not you think you are a team player or someone who works better alone. After your own self-rating, go online and do a search on terms such as “team player quiz" or “team player questionnaire.” Report your results and compare with your initial self-ratings. Also, provide the link to the test you found in case any of your classmates want to use it. Finally, take a look at this class to assess whether this class has a variety of personalities and characteristics, or if you think your classmates generally have similar characteristics. If you think this manager would have an easy or hard time managing this group? Identify and analytical tools to measure your own propensity for teamwork. What helps people work together effectively in organizational groups and teams?
There are some important differences between groups and teams. A team is purposefully put together by someone in the organization to achieve goals and objectives as a team. In contrast, a group often forms by itself to support the needs of group members, but it may not have any organizationally related goals or objectives (for example, members sharing a special interest within an organization who come together to provide mutual support). Edgar Schein offers a helpful distinction between a group and a team: "A group is any number of people who interact with each other, are psychologically aware of each other and who perceive themselves to be a group; a team consists of people drawn from different existing groups within their workplace to work on specific issues or projects" (Karabadse, A., Ludlow, R. and Vinnicombe, S. (1987), Working in Organizations. London, Penguin Books, pp. 154, 358). Groups and teams do not burst on the scene fully effective and running on all cylinders; they tend to develop over time into cohesive and effective (or ineffective) units. We will begin by taking a look at the nature of groups and the process of group development. How does a group become a group? Teams and groups do not run automatically. Management certainly may have the authority to create teams, and to direct the functioning of certain kinds of informal groups, but effective collective action, the objective of any organization, cannot take place without the agreement of team or group members to act together. Write an essay.

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