ABSTRACT
The quality of team relationships in turn determines the quality of the relationships the team has with other groups and teams. The interplay of individual personal characteristics in the context of the team is constant. It is like the parallel process of the interplay of our internal characteristics and preferences, the polarities of our personality that define who we are in different contexts. As the personality of the team develops, the way that members manage the team boundary with other people and teams in the wider organisation or externally also evolves. Collective choices are made about how much difference to exhibit and compromise to accept. Early on in relationships individual behaviour can be driven by a desire to be accepted by others, to avoid controversy or conflict or to protect their self-interest or identity. Team members are gathering information and impressions about each other and making comparisons and judgements based on their own frame of reference.
