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Investigating the effectiveness of team working on projects The purpose of teams in organisations In this essay I will attempt to evaluate the following statement, "successful projects need successful teams". So what is a team? In the dictionary, the description of a team is 'a number of persons associated in some joint action.' Teams or groups, as they are sometimes referred to, exist in every company and large organisations. Teams consist of a combination of people committed to mutual goals. The purpose of teams is to work together to accomplish specific goals and objectives. (Katzenbach and Smith 1986) defined a team as a 'small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and common approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable'. The main reason why teams are made is because together they have the ability to accomplish much more through the use of knowledge...

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