ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at what it means to be a team, whether a management team can be said to be a real team, and what some of the practical consequences of the degree of “teamness” can be for how a management team works. The term teamwork has become an honorific, and most of the employees will claim that they are members of at least one team at their place of work. A team has one or more common goals or tasks that are different from the sum total of the individual members’ goals or tasks. A management group is a team to the extent that the success of the departments represented in the management team is based on interdependence. In many cases, the purpose of having a management team lies in the fact that the departments are closely interdependent and thereby rely on good collaboration to boost organizational performance.
