Editing Team building (section)

== Challenges to team building ==
The term 'team building' is often used as a dodge when organizations are looking for a 'quick fix' to poor communication systems or unclear leadership directives, leading to unproductive teams with no clear of how to be successful. Team work is the best work.

Teams are then assembled to address specific problems, while the underlying causes are not ignored.

Dyer highlighted three challenges for team builders:<ref>Dyer, W. G., Dyer, W. G., & Dyer, J. H. (2007). ''Team building: Proven strategies for improving team performance''. San Francisco: Jossey-Bas</ref>

* '''Lack of teamwork skills''': One of the challenges facing leaders is to find team-oriented employees. Most organizations rely on educational institutions to have inculcated these skills into students. Dyer believed however, that students are encouraged to work individually and succeed without having to collaborate. This works against the kinds of behavior needed for teamwork. Another study found that team training improved cognitive, affective, process and performance outcomes.<ref name="autogenerated2"/> Employee resistance and lack of teamwork skills may result where employees are required to work with other employees with whom they are unfamiliar. In this case, the new teams are breaking up established social relationships.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fapohunda |first=Tinuke |date=April 2013 |title=Towards Effective Team Building in the Workplace |url=http://www.ijern.com/images/April-2013/23.pdf |journal=International Journal of Education and Research |volume=1| issue =  4}}</ref>
* '''Virtual workplaces and across organizational boundaries''': according to Dyer, organizations individuals who are not in the same physical space increasingly work together. Members are typically unable to build concrete relationships with other team members. Another study found that face-to-face communication is very important in building an effective team environment.<ref name="autogenerated2006">{{cite journal|author=Oertig, M., & Buergi, T.|title= The challenges of managing cross-cultural virtual project teams|journal= Team Performance Management|volume= 12|pages= 23–30|doi= 10.1108/13527590610652774|year= 2006}}</ref> Face-to-face contact was key to developing trust. Formal team building sessions with a facilitator led the members to "agree to the relationship" and define how the teams were work. Informal contact was also mentioned.
* '''Globalization and virtualization''': Teams increasingly include members who have dissimilar languages, cultures, values and problem-solving approaches problems. One-to-one meetings has been successful in some organizations.<ref name="autogenerated2006"/>

The International Journal of Management and Entrepreneurship highlights the point of groupthink being another challenge within team building. A group thinking or making decisions in a way that discourages creativity or individual control creates potential for increased conflict over decision making.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ozigbo |first1=Ada-Mac |last2=Idegbesor |first2=Maryam |last3=Ngige |first3=Chigbo Donatus |last4=Nwakoby |first4=Nkiru Peace |date=2020-04-05 |title=TEAM BUILDING AND PERFORMANCE IN ORGANIZATIONS: AN EXPLORATION OF ISSUES |url=https://www.ijmecoou.org/index.php/ijme/article/view/28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220816213757/https://www.ijmecoou.org/index.php/ijme/article/view/28 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=August 16, 2022 |journal=International Journal of Management and Entrepreneurship |language=en |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=184–199}}</ref>

Another challenge to team building include three types of conflict that can occur which are task conflict, process conflict and relationship conflict.

* '''Task Conflict''': Conflict over the work or goals of the project, including different approaches, perspectives and interpretations
* '''Process Conflict''': Conflict over how the logistics of the work are completed and assigning responsibilities
* '''Relationship Conflict''': Conflict over interpersonal relationships, including personality clashes, differing personal views and perspectives.<ref>{{Cite journal |title= Relationship, task and process conflicts on team performance|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235291422 |journal= International Journal of Conflict Management|year=2009 |language=en |doi=10.1108/10444060910974876 |last1=Martínez-Moreno |first1=Edurne |last2=González-Navarro |first2=Pilar |last3=Zornoza |first3=Ana |last4=Ripoll |first4=Pilar |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=251–268 |hdl=10550/96521 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>