Is it a group of co-located individuals or a set of people with a task that requires them to work together to produce something?
A great deal of organizational work is performed these days by sets of people who are called “teams” but who really are co-acting groups.
J. Richard Hackman
Managers in organizations where this is done may harbor the hope that they can harvest the widely touted benefits of teamwork while continuing to directly manage the behavior of individual members.
That hope is misplaced: If you want the benefits of teamwork, you have to give the team the work.
So there is a choice here: Either design the work for a team or design it for individuals
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