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This 8 page paper looks at the way group interaction and development may take place in a distribution organization, discussing the way theory can be seen in the real world. Issues such as group and team development, Belbins roles and motivation are all included. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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others, it is important for many individuals to work together in order for the firm to achieve its objectives. In order to look at how this operates within a workplace
environment it is necessary to first look at the differences between team work and group work. In both cases teams and
groups are made up of individuals, which may be defined as a single person. A group may be defined as "An assemblage of persons or objects gathered or located together"
(Dictionary.com, 208). In the commercial or workplace environment groups are a collection of individual people that have come together for a specific purpose (Heller, 1998). In a group there may
be a single purpose, but the group members work independently or individually. It is possible that a group will have a leader, but there may be fragmentation and there will
not be any defined roles (Heller, 1998). Teams are different from group; they are more defined and have more than a specific
purpose in common. This may be defined as "number of persons associated in some joint action" (Dictionary.com, 2008). This indicates that the actions are undertaken in q different way, here
the individuals I the team do not work independently they will work together (Huczyniski and Buchanan, 2003). The team members should have a shared sense of purpose, trust each other
and good teams will benefit from good communications, sting leadership, but this should not be confused with autocratic or directed leadership, the ability to manage and overcome conflict and a
commitment to the team (Heller, 1998). Sub-teams are the same as teams but will have task within the overall process, where the team structure is emulated with roles for the
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