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Week 6: "Managing teams" This week's topic gave me a critical sight on teams. The chapter from the book discusses different purposes of teams and how they have changed during the history. Frederick W Taylor and his Scientific Management had a negative view on teams. If the employees were allowed to form groups, Taylor believed efficiency and productivity would decrease. His reason was called soldiering; if employees were given responsibilities and allowed to work in groups, they would pursue their own interests rather than those of the organisation. To prevent this, Taylor saw it as important to separate between mental and manual work and different tasks should be separated from each other. This isolating was supposed to increase productivity. The productivity didn't increase and researchers started to examine other factors that could play an important role in the need for increased efficiency. Different experiments were done, and they showed that giving...

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