Accoring to Fritz (2015), a group in the workplace usually comprises three or more people who recognize themselves as a distinct unit or department, but who actually work independently of each other to achieve their organizational goals. While a team comprises three or more people who may come from different departments within a business, but they collaborate together over time to achieve some set purpose, goal or project. Whether a group or a team, these employees come together to solve issues, focus on continuous improvement, and attain organizational goals. Groups are of similar positions and are able to share resources and ideas but the disadvantages of groups include: “slowness and expensiveness, groupthink, polarization, escalating commitment, and divided responsibility” (p. 339). Teams are established groups that interact and function together over an extended period of time; disadvantages of groups include the group development where the team must go through the initial stages of forming a group and learning to work together. If a team does not successfully maneuver these stages than the structure and success of the organization will be limited.

The Team at my organization is a self-managing and cross-functional team. Which according to Newstrom (2015) means the members are drawn from more than one specialty in the organization and are coordinated small groups in regular contact designed to engage in coordinated action (p. 349). This team was formed to perform internal and external audits within the organization. The organization revolves around a hostile environment after these external audits. The audits often garnish unwanted efforts on the organization. Upper management simply casts a blind eye on the audits but know that their organizational successes are dependent on solving organizational issues and closing our open issues.

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