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Difference between a group and a team:

A group is a collection of individuals whose efforts coordinated. Characteristics Can be more in their numbers, Each individual not depending on the others. Each individual assigned his own task without any collective responsibility. Lifespan is longer. Have multiple patterns like formal and informal groups. (Difference Between Group and Team, n.d)

A team is an organized group of individuals that shares a common team purpose. Characteristics Team individual numbers always fewer than the group. Build with skilled and experienced people that collaboratively deal with each other. They have the same end mind and can reach the team's goals as they complete the tasks mutually. (Prachi, M.2019)

Ringelmann Effect: Max Ringelmann was a French agriculture engineering that tried to assess the effort of the people in atrial, that making a person pull a rope and then make this person pull the rope within a group of individuals, his findings was that. Individuals expending less individual effort on a task when working as part of a group than when working alone. ("Ringelmann Effect", 2005). The modern research of the Ringelmann effect withing the groups found the individual effort decreases with the increase of the group size, with two types of individual reactions: 1) The individual believes the work will be successfully accomplished with the presence of the other group members. 2) Individual perception falls in the thinking, the group members do not put their best efforts at the assigned task, as a result, the individual decreases his own effort within the group. Understanding of the Ringelmann effect will guide the organizations to how can choose the groups effectively, as increasing the group size can affect the individual’s motivation by losing the coordination within the group. Sure, there are several variables that can preserve the group efficacy, as the identifiability of the individual effort within the group, group cohesiveness, and task interdependence.

The characteristics of a highly effective team:

Trust The team takes critical decisions and risks, so each member of the team needs to feel the other members in his back, supporting, guiding, and completing each other, the trust environment will break any barriers and will increase team efficiency.

Debate Positively The team needs to have their discussion with that manner of debating positively, with the trust between them, this kind of discussion or arguments when done with the approach will enrich the team with ideas, concepts, and strategies.

Mission-oriented Effective teams should have these members who have the concept of the end goals, understanding the mission, the team who functionally not limiting themselves will do their tasks more efficiently.

Get Results the team must know his direction and be aware of the mark wants to hit, with the long-run need to achieve positive results, on the way team studying their results and refine their management to achieve this success.

Culture of Leadership when all the team members working for the team success, supporting each other, seeking to lean with each other, not for any individual within the team to be accredited for the achievement, at this point, the culture of leadership will help the whole team to be highly effective.

Teamwork barriers:

Unclear goals When the team is assigned is to achieve goals, when these goals are unclear or the individual’s responsibilities within the teamwork for these goals not clear for the team members which will distort the job duties team.

Lack of Managerial Involvement The manager is the one who creates the team with specific qualifications in each one of the team member to go forward for the organization objectives from that team, when the manager is not present to observe the team achievements and guide them when needed, places the responsibilities when conflicting between the team members arise, the result is the team will be ineffective.

When Egos Get in the Way When the team contains members that not work for the general goals the team dynamics will be threatened, as the team will be un capable to develop the effective unit as it should be.

Poor communication Team with poor or, no effective communication will not be able to exchange the tasks needed information, then the inevitable results will be less than were planned.

Discrimination This kind of barrier will be so bad if it happened within a team at the workplace as they discriminated a person will be confused and away from the assigned goals then that will break the team ties for the long term.

References:

Difference Between Group and Team. (n.d). Retrieved from https://askanydifference.com/difference-between-group-and-team/

Prachi, M. (2019, December 17) Group Vs Team. Retrieved from https://theinvestorsbook.com/group-vs-team.html#DifferenceandComparison

Ringelmann Effect. (2005, February 26). In Wikipedia. Retrieved Oct.11.2020 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringelmann_effect

Ringelmann Effect. Retrieved from http://psychology.iresearchnet.com/social-psychology/group/ringelmann-effect/

5 Characteristics of Highly Effective Teams. (n.d). Retrieved from https://www.leadersinstitute.com/5-characteristics-highly-effective-teams/

Chron, C. (2020, July 8). Examples of Barriers to Effective Teamwork. Retrieved from https://smallbusiness.chron.com/examples-barriers-effective-teamwork-10394.html...