Describe the effects of teamwork processes on team performance and commitment

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Research conducted in a wide variety of team settings has shown that teamwork processes have a moderate positive relationship with team performance. This same moderate positive relationship appears to hold true, regardless of whether the research examines transition processes, action processes, or interpersonal processes. The interpersonal activities that prepare teams for future work appear to be just as important as those that help members integrate their taskwork and those that build team confidence and a positive team climate. Researchers have also found that the importance of team processes to team performance may be more strongly positive in teams in which there are higher levels of interdependence. Activities that are meant to improve the integration of team members' work are simply more important in team contexts in which the work of team members needs to be integrated.

Teamwork processes have a strong positive effect on team commitment. That aspect of team process has a stronger effect on commitment for teams involved in more complex knowledge work rather than less complex work.

Research also indicates that teamwork processes have a strong positive relationship with team commitment. In other words, teams that engage in effective teamwork processes tend to continue to exist together into the future. People tend to be satisfied in teams in which there are effective interpersonal interactions, and as a consequence, they go out of their way to do things that they believe will help the team stick together.