Group and Teams Paper

Within today’s organizations the collaboration of individuals and resources is extremely important in remaining competitive and successful. All organizations consist of groups of individuals but differentiating between a group and a fully functional, cohesive team illustrates the differences between the two. A group is a collection of individuals in the same space. A group may or may not work together or independent of one another. A team differs from a group in the sense that the collection of individuals are working together to try to accomplish a common goal. Teams will collaborate together and share ideas and concepts in trying to complete tasks.

A group can be defined as a collection of individuals in the same space with similar interests, beliefs, commodore, etc. An example of a group that we find throughout our school years but less in the work environment would be a social group. These types of groups usually engage in social interactions, exchange of ideas and interests. Within the workplace you may also find groups, often times individuals who work in the same department, have similar job functions, or even work a similar shift will often socialize and interact together in their own groups. An example of such interaction in my workplace would be the Engineering Group. We have a small group of Network Architects and Engineers and we usually socialize together, go to lunch together, and at times socialize outside of work together.

When a group is assembled together to try to work on common goals and tasks a team is formed. A team concept differs from a group where the individual skills and abilities of each team member are seen as an asset, and a wanted commodity in assisting in completely assignments and problem solving. A great example of a team concept would be a football team. Though each group of individual positional players has their own responsibilities, and must learn how to play their respective positions and responsibilities they...