Teamwork In Vietnam

In this day and age, when science and technology is developing rapidly, the requirement of

teamwork is needed more than ever. Simply because no one is perfect, teamwork will focus each

person's strengths and complement to each other. Moreover, no one can afford everything. Westerners

always separate clearly between works and friends, therefore their teamwork seem very relaxed and

simple. However, the working atmosphere is quite tense sometimes, Westerners value personal so

conflict with each other is unavoidable. For the Vietnamese youth, the word "teamwork" has been

talked about a lot but it seems like it still only be "heard" but they have not made it in the true sense.

They rarely succeed in teamwork projects.

In some debates, they try to show that they care about what others think. In

some debates, they often soften and suppress themselves, in some cases, it seems like they are

bickering. Especially, arguing with bosses is seen as a sign of disrespect, sometimes was assessed to the

field of ethics and work attitudes. As a Vietnamese idiom “A bad compromise is better than a good

lawsuit”, building a good relationship between members is more important than a project that is behind

schedule. It is different from Westerners, who have a very high personal but willingly to join force to

complete the work after a fully stretched argument.

Secondly, Europeans and Americans are good at splitting between works and feelings, by

contrast, Vietnamese like to please others by always proved to agree when others express an opinion

while disagreeing or not understand anything. That will make the team misunderstood each other,

divided the point to many or do whatever they want. Others sit idle, everybody was satisfied and the

work is not finished. If the boss give an idea, it immediately becomes a golden rule, members

Only a few days, the group will split. When

discussing together, some members think their opinion is not good enough or the topic is too boring to

listen, so Instead of discussing together to solve the problem, they turn into private conversation with

one another. Until there are only 5-10 minutes left, all of them pay attention, try to push someone else

speak. And after a person is chosen, they continue the chat that they have just left.

In conclusion, there are many reasons that make teamwork failure, but all are rooted in

attitudes and perceptions of members in group: relationship heightening, no personal opinion for team

development, lack of responsibility and do not pay attention to other members in group. ”Teamwork” is

a necessary skill not only in working but also in real life. “Teamwork” can be trained during practice and

can be learnt in schools and universities, which is currently taken lightly. In my opinion, all people

already known about Teamwork – what is this, how to do this… – but when it comes into action, most of

them make some mistakes, and to make it right from wrong, people need to change, start from