Study: 84% of adults find it hard to work in teams
Are you trying hard to build a team but finding it more difficult than you expected?
While every company talks about cooperation and sharing among employees, a University of Phoenix survey finds that 84% of working adults find difficult to work in a team.
The largest percentage, 45%, said there is an "in-it-for-one’s-self" mentality in the workplace that keeps them from really considering the group’s needs before their own.
Almost one in six respondents who think teams often fail says that individuals are more motivated to be individually successful.
But lack of proper training was the most often-cited reason for why teams fail; 61% attribute the failure of teams say companies do not spend enough time training them on how to work as a group.
More than half (52%) also feel that a lack of clearly defined roles contributed to team failures.
In short, said president of University of Phoenix Dr. Bill Pepicell, "working in teams can be one of the more challenging dynamics one faces in the workplace."
The online survey of 1,072 employed U.S. adults was conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of University of Phoenix in August 2013.
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