Editing Teamwork (section)

== History ==
The ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' records the use of "team-work" in the context of a team of draught animals as early as 1800.<ref>{{oed | teamwork}} – "How is the ploughing, the drawing, and all kind of team-work to be performed without horses?"</ref>

Even though collaborative work among groups of individuals is very prominent today, that was not the case over half a century ago.{{Clarify timeframe|date=June 2021}} The shift from the typical [[assembly line]] to organizational models that contained increasing amounts of teamwork first came about during [[World War I]] and [[World War II]], in an effort{{by whom|date=June 2021}} for countries to unite their people.{{citation needed|date=June 2021}} The movement towards teamwork was mostly due to the [[Hawthorne studies]], a set of studies conducted in the 1920s and 1930s that suggested positive aspects of teamwork in an organizational setting. After organizations recognized the value of teamwork and the positive effects it had on companies, entire fields of work shifted from the typical assembly line to the contemporary [[High performance organization|High Performance Organizational Model]].<ref name="Hoegl20012">{{cite journal|last1= Hoegl|first1= Martin|first2= Hans Georg |last2=Gemuenden|year=2001|title= Teamwork Quality and the Success of Innovative Projects: a Theoretical Concept and Empirical Evidence|journal=Organization Science|volume=12|issue= 4|pages= 435–449|doi=10.1287/orsc.12.4.435.10635|jstor=3085981}}</ref>{{qn|date=June 2021}}