Building effective and preventing ineffective work teams

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Modern organizations strive towards utilizing team work and to having a democratic style of leadership, but building a team may be a complex task. Both organizations and teams have constructive and destructive tendencies. Ideal team work contains such positive and creative qualities as effectiveness, informativeness, holisticity, creativeness, security, high didactic values and the protection of the staffs mental health. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating: in practice, there is a risk that team building will bring out the negative potentialities of team work: ineffectiveness, lack of flexibility, the disappointment of clients, team idealization or devaluation, responsibility problems, and pathological group phenomena. Skillful leadership is a prerequisite for the control and taming of destructive tendencies, organizational regression and structural erosion. Team building and maintenance is also, paradoxically, a task which presupposes team work.

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