... business community's insistence that employing teams is a 'positive-sum game'2. However, not every organisation or task is best organised in a team-based model, and organisations may overestimate the benefits they will achieve. To ascertain whether embracing team philosophy has become the new focus of attention in accordance with the definitive advantages that accrue from such a strategy, or as a form of maintaining company ostentation through following the current trend in business organisations, I have drawn upon the perceived benefits of teams and the conditions which underpin their effectiveness. Work groups are defined by Kathryn M. Bartol and David C. Martin in 'Management' (1998) as two or more interdependent individuals who interact and influence each other in collective pursuit of a common goal. Two other criterions which might be worth adding are the provision of complementary skills and a working approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable3. Organisational work ...

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