Importance Of Teamwork In Construction

3.3 Discuss the importance of team work for successful completion of a construction projects at Sisk construction ltd
Groups & teams
Groups: Two or more individual who come into personal & meaningful contract on a continuing basis.
Ex: - thirteen group staff unit plus the support unit Skanska financial services.
Team: a group organizationally empowered to participate in decision making, exercise influence over how their objectives are met & often, establish many of those objectives. Teams are groups of people with predetermined purpose of achieving a goal or set of goals, through the use of collective efforts, resources and collective responsibility for the results achieved
Ex: - decision making at construction site.

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Diversity of approaches: individual tend to develop tunnel vision, regarding only their part of problem as importance. When individual on a team share problem stimulate the search for a variety of approaches.
Ex: - At construction site in the department of engineers, will analyze an engineering problem in different angle to find a better solution.
Increase acceptance: a person who is given a chance to influence a team decision may be more committed to the decision & accept more responsibility for making it work than someone who is just told what to do.
Ex: - A engineering solution for a concrete work will be more affective, when the engineer take the decision with the help of other.
Better understanding: someone who solves a problem along usually has the traditional task persuading others to implement the solution. As result, further problem are often caused by sub-ordinate’s inadequate understanding of the problem.
Ex: - when all site employees working as a team they may have better understanding about the objective of the