Groups and Teams Axia University of Phoenix Background: The paper highlights the difference between a group and team. How they play a role within an organization. With changing times and restructuring of organizations, it has caused people to perform within groups and teams. "The delegation of duties is occurring through this redesign of the work process. The delegation process is in turn creating team environments in organizations. The redesign of the work process is also due to downsizing; a collapsing of the organization's ranks, and the retiring of employees" (eNotes, 2009, p. 1). The paper will also focus on impacts and advantages of diversity within organization with special focus on team dynamics within workplace. Group: "An effective group is one that achieves high levels of task performance, member satisfaction, and team viability. With regard to task performance an effective group achieves its performance goals in the standard sense of quantity, quality, and timeliness of work results " (Schermerhorn, Hunt, & Osborn, 2008, p. 171). A group can be explained as two or more people striving for accomplishment of a common objective. It is vital within an organization as it adds in new ideas and processes to the available task due to presence of diversified groups. People within a group can brainstorm about ideas and make most appropriate decisions. It also helps in personal development of individuals. A group can be termed efficient when it has a prope ...
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