Team-based organizations are a familiar function in many companies and government establishments. Team-based organizations are smaller bodies of teams that employees may be involved with in addition to their primary duties. In my organization we call this an auxiliary assignment. The definition of axially team in our organization simply defines another assignment or team that a member of the office belongs to in addition to their primary assignment. For example, I am a team leader for our Peer Support Team at work. The team consists of twenty-four members from all different assignments in the office. We meet together monthly for meetings and trainings to best learn how to address the needs of members of our organization. The Peer Support Team is an additional assignment to my primary responsibility at work. I have a different supervisor on this team than my primary supervisor, but I don’t seem to experience any conflict with having two different supervisors. However, I am a supervisor to others on the team and sometimes the agenda of peer support conflicts with agendas of team member’s supervisors. In this case I have to be sensitive to communicating clearly with the other supervisors outside of this team that are affected and avoid any “stepping on toes,” or miscommunication.
Team-based organizations are the only way we could maintain necessary functions in our office, such as, SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics), CNT (Crisis Negotiation Team), Peer Support, Search and Rescue, etc.. The organization I work for is relatively small and we could not provide full-time staffing for any of these assignments. In order to make these valuable teams work, members of the office need to participate on these specialized teams to provide additional services to the community in addition to their primary job.
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I agree with you in the statement that team-based organizations are the only way to maintain necessary functions, as well as agree with the example you used. Taking SWAT into consideration, if they didn't work as a team and one member decided to make decisions solo it could endanger the lives of the whole team as well as others. Sometimes I don't think that owners, managers, CEO's, etc...realize just how important the "team" is and often fail to give recognition to everyone else. Even the lowest member of the work totem pole is still part of the team and how they impact the group as a whole. Sometimes people just think he or she who makes the most money don't need anyone else, neglecting that they actually needed everyone else to get to where they are today.
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