ABSTRACT

Teams are part of everyone’s life experience. Nearly every one of us grows up either participating on teams, or observing teams, While work teams are not as visible as school teams, or professional athletic teams, they are more numerous. When most people think about a team, their thoughts usually turn first to teams where they were members, and then to professional teams, usually athletic, It is from one of these two sources of experience which people then draw when they form or participate on work teams.