ABSTRACT
Team members must communicate with each other, adapt, and adjust their work to perform their tasks in a timely and integrated fashion. At the core of teamwork are sets of interrelated kinds of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviours, including formal or informal organizational aspects. Working in groups is a common requirement in offices, in planning and design, in production and assembly, and in maintenance and repair tasks. An educated and liberated workforce became more aware of the working conditions and environment and the quality of work life. Frederick Taylor's approach generated efficient work systems by time studies, careful design of work, provision of the right tools, and selection of able persons. Individual needs and wants were emphasized, and workers' behaviour and their attitudes toward work were considered important. Motivation and job performance are, of course, related; a motivated person who desires do well at work is willing to expend effort to do so.
