Pros And Cons Of Teamwork In The Workplace

Compare and Contrast In companies today working in unison between employees is not something out of the norm for them. Teamwork is typically viewed as a positive concept, as it brings a group of employees who work for the benefit of the business (Joseph, n.d.). A big benefit of working in teams is having a pool of knowledge and experience from each of the individuals all together, such as if they are working on a project and one employee becomes confused on a certain aspect, instead of standing around and not knowing who to go to he is able to go right to another member to ask a question. Working in groups has been shown to be good for generating ideas from each individual from the group, and pushes each member of the group to be more creative and push for new ideas. While working individually, an employee is then limited to only their own ideas and thoughts on a project without getting the prospective of their other colleagues (Frost, n.d.). Additionally, the article states it allows for fact checking and with this each individual has a checks and balance within the group as the project goes along. This is necessary so that no huge problems arise during the project. In the second article, it discusses more cons of working in teams that can be huge issues. Such as an unequal amount of participation, which means a tendency for some team members to sit back and allow other people to do a majority of the …show more content…
Teamworking on a project I feel speeds up the process, and allows for employees to divide and conquer different tasks at the same time. I have worked in many groups through my academic career and have found this to be a key component to finishing a project on time, but I have found that some individual in groups cannot pull their own weight and try to sail off the other groups efforts rather than