Question 1 (50 marks)

Teams are an essential component for any company success. In critical times such as covid-19, teams work become essential given the nature of tasks that becomes more critical and complex requiring creativity and innovation and unorthodox interventions. In 750 words, discuss the importance of teams and role of teams in helping companies to survive critical times. Reflect in your answer on your personal professional experience in this regard.

Hint:

You are to reflect on relevant B628 course material.

You are to consider in your discussion all aspects discussed in the course material with regard to groups and teams particularly with regard to various definitions, when to work in groups and when to work in teams and how teams life cycle evolve.

Your discussion needs to be supported not only with B628course material and theoretical background but also with real example from your personal professional experience and how team work has evolved reference covid-19 pandemic. Your discussion in this regard should mainly reflect on whether team work has increased or not and how team life cycle has evolved accordingly.

In case you do not have a personal professional experience in this regard, you may support your discussion with any other relevant and valid example as long as it is supported with proper referencing.

It is highly advisable that you support your discussion with relevant references.