COLLABORATION ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES

Collaboration Advantages and Disadvantages



Collaboration Advantages and Disadvantages

Introduction

Collaboration is not at all easy task to achieve especially in the workplace where professionals may at times compete with each other and engages in self-serving activities that promotes only self-interest that inhibits the advancement of the needs of others. A number of factors such as giving a great deal of effort to synergize all the people and to foster commitment among the people involved must be taken into consideration first before can collaboration occur in the workplace. In this essay, we come to define what collaboration is and the advantages and disadvantages of collaboration it brings to the workplace.

Advantages

Creative and Innovative Solutions

The collaboration of teams especially if the team constitutes diverseness, they are likely to come up with innovative solutions because they think differently, thereby their varying perceptions when taken together results to innovative solutions. Perhaps, one of the reasons why successful companies, like the IBM and Honda, is embodying and promoting diversity in their company for them to be able to continue in the collaboration of creating more creative and innovative solutions that would serve as their competitive advantage in the marketplace (Yates & Orlikowski, 2002).

Higher standards outcomes

In collaboration, wherein groups work together to aim for the common goal is susceptible to deliver high standards for the very reason that not one or two persons work but group as composing of more or less five members. The task can be subdivided and in a way more efficient as all of the members can contribute and assess the whole outcome, whether or not it needs further improvement or it reached the level of standards being set by the group (Drucker, 1955).

Helps develop other skills

Project management

Working in collaboration is indeed a learning process. In project management, a group member ...