Compare groups and terms in organizations

As we can all understand that within an organization, jobs or tasks were passed
down through the hierarchy line from the top manager, employees were given
appropriate tasks depend on their personality, ability, life experience,
knowledge, skill to achieve, but the whole future or the goal are depend on each
individual’s successfully, therefore is important for any organization to bear in
mind: each individual are difference, unique personality and diversity, the basic
form of right group or team in order more efficiency to tackle the mission.

According to the Dictionary of Sociology (2008) the meaning of groups,

whatever are Formal and informal groups in the workplace that collaborate as a
team on work tasks, for short or for indefinite periods of time. The quality circles
movement makes work groups central to the production system, with responsibility
to study and resolve production problems. The Dictionary of Human Resource
Management (2008) also indicated that the meaning of team is a group of people
with complementary skills who are involved in a common set of goals for which
they are collectively accountable.
As we can see that is difficult to exactly to clarify the definition between groups
and teams in some area, when we refer to couple people gathered to work.
According to Holpp (1997), comparing with the definition of groups, teams are
oriented with concern on particular project and mission, and although the teams
is also made up by several different people with advantaged skill, knowledge,
experience, ability in specific area. But within a team, the member could be self-
managed or cooperate rather than under one director control. In other way of
saying this, Belbin (2000) suggested that a normal, well-presented teams’
leadership are shared or rotates when group are often under a solo leaders. Also,
according to Mullins (2007), within a group, members would more than teams’,
basically teams are less than 6 people, and group would be five to more than
seven peoples. Moreover, Crainer (1998) argued that teams’ member are more
interdependent, teams occur when a number of people have a common goal and
recognize that their personal success is depend on the success of others. In
practices, this mean that in most teams people will contribute individual skills
many of which will be different. It also means that the full tensions and counter-
balance of human behaviour will need to be demonstrated in the teams.

Conclusion
Groups are more often used in a commonsense when teams are more specific
meaning. Is clear that we should recognize its context through the situation that
people refer to.
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