Importance of team work in an Organization.

What works in an organization in reaching its goals is not an individual, but properly integrated teamwork. The main reason is that considering the vastness and the very nature of the work that an organization engages in it is not possible for any one individual to even think of taking the entire load upon his own shoulders.

Considering the vastness of the projects and their complex nature, work necessarily has to be first broken down into compartments in organizations known as departments. Even that is not sufficient, so to enable handling by individuals it is broken down into modules and sub-modules that can be handled manageably by each different employee within each separate department. The special characteristic of sub-modules and modules is that somebody has to continuously man the work interfaces between them.

Unless these interfaces are properly and continuously paid attention to, there is always the possibility that the wrong output or a delayed one is sent from one sub-module into another waiting to receive the correct and timely input. Therefore, an individual responsible for one sub-module needs to always be in touch with another who mans a sub-module which has an interface with it.

Naturally, the work relations between two such individuals can affect the overall target required to be reached by an organization, sometimes in a most significant manner. If the two concerned individuals jell with each other and understand each other's requirements perfectly, they will take sufficient care that the transmission of not only the correct output takes place from one to the next, but it also takes place in a very much timely manner.

Such work interaction that takes into consideration the sensitivities and requirements of different interfacing work modules and of the individuals responsible for them is known as real teamwork. Working as part of a team never can be learnt in a day.

It requires many factors to simultaneously be developed. They include continuous commitment to the overall goal of the organization. An important factor is relationship management. Another two factors are talent and perseverance of team members.

Most of all the development of teamwork requires the experience of working together for a considerable period to iron out all the issues between different employees from different backgrounds and their different work ethics. Concerted coordination between team members forms the watchword in the development of teamwork in an organization and therefore the team coordinator's role becomes paramount.

An organization that succeeds in reaching its targets therefore necessarily has to inculcate the culture of teamwork in its human resources. Without teamwork and mutual understanding between teams of employees, the organizational juggernaut can never grind its wheels like a well-oiled machine in perfect symbiosis between the different subsystems that comprise it.