Advantages And Disadvantages Of A Team Vs Teamthink

Groupthink and/or Teamthink, which one is the best choice for your company? This paper will take a look at the process of evolving a group into a team and the importance of organizational culture in the process. We will take a look at appropriate leadership styles that would be most effective for managing a group or a team, also taking into consideration multicultural teams. Finally, we will point out some of the advantages and disadvantages of having groups or teams. Let’s begin by providing a brief description of a team, a team is when people come together and combine different skills and experiences to solve problems and perform work is a fundamental building-block of organizations (Manz and Neck,1995). Groups, however do not have a†¦show more content†¦A participative leader will allow a team to express their ideas and make suggestions, by doing so a participative leader can increase the vision shared by the team. With effective leadership, a team will thrive and succeed, after all, it’s about the success of the team which leads to the success of the organization, by implementing all the right tools and practices the probability of success only increases. With the ever-growing trend of out sourcing there is much more need for multicultural teamwork, this means effective leadership. The problems leaders face is how to get multicultural teams separated by many miles, time differences, and language barriers, to work efficiently. Leaders who choose not to consider these and many other differences have made a huge mistake which can be extremely costly to a company. Just as leadership is faced with differences, multicultural teams are faced with different expectations and must utilize many more multicultural skills. When working in other countries there are different ethical standards and laws, these are all considerations that effective leadership needs to be able to relay to the multicultural team when establishing the team goals and expectations, here again we can see where organizational culture comes into play, a company must rely on its organization integrity in order for the leader representing the organization to make the right choi ces when instructing and