In any large organization, team work is the ultimate key to success

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Applied at workplaces, teamwork can be defined as a co-ordinated effort from a group of people acting together towards a specific business purpose. In large organizations, individuals play certain roles and carry out certain responsibilities, which are determined in advance. Each task is accomplished by a specialized team, which allows the organization to be more productive in the execution of daily tasks. This idea concurs to what Adam Smith advocated: he believed that the organization of a business in specialized teams or the division of labor as he called it - was the ultimate key to a business success.

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[...] As a conclusion, because teams allow a business organization to perform better, to be more unified and to have larger goals, teamwork can be considered as a central unifying tool of an organization as well as the ultimate key to its success. Indeed, most successful organizations have admitted that their success is due to the success of their teams. Indicative bibliography Team organization: an enduring competitive advantage. By Dean Tjosvold, published by Willey The wisdom of teams: creating the high-performance organization. By Jon R Katzenbach and Douglas K Smith, Harvard Business School Press, 1993. [...]

[...] This idea concurs to what Adam Smith advocated: he believed that the organization of a business in specialized teams or the division of labour as he called it- was the ultimate key to a business' success. Let us take the example of automobile factories: they have an organizational chain where people are shared out among teams and each team has a particular task to accomplish and interacts with other teams. Those factories could never manufacture thousands of cars a day if it was not split into teams. [...]

[...] In any large organization, team work is the ultimate key to success Today, there is a diversity of organizations and they evolve in a very competitive environment. The competition is played on every single field of the business: productivity, number of customers, human resources management, etc. One could argue that only the measurable factors are valuable. However, one should not under estimate the power of intangible resources such as human resources, teamwork, technology, research and brand image. Amongst these factors, teamwork plays one of the most prominent roles in the success of an organization. [...]

[...] Indeed, teamwork provides organizations with competitive advantages such as flexibility, robustness and high performance through synergies. Synergies are a fundamental advantage provided by teamwork since they define the fact that the final outcome produced by people working together is higher than the sum of its individual parts. On the contrary, no teamwork can result in a slowing down in the production and misunderstanding between divisions because of the lack of cohesion between people around the world (one term can be taken for another one in another division). [...]