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Groups and Teams: Becoming High Performers

A team is a small group of people with complementary skills who work actively together to achieve a common purpose for which they hold themselves collectively accountable (Schermerhorn, J.). A major challenge in any organization is to turn the group into a high-performance team that can function well in any setting. High-performance teams have special characteristics that allow them to excel at teamwork and achieve special performance advantages (Schermerhorn, J.). This paper will discuss how groups can become high-performance teams and how demographic characteristics, cultural diversity, and group behavior affects or contributes to this goal.
Demographic Characteristics
Demographic characteristics usually consist of age, sex, race, education level, and work experience. According to research, these characteristics can be classified into two groups, visibility and job relatedness or informational. Visible demographic......

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