EMPLOYEE TEAMWORK According to Cohen and Bailey (1999), a team of employees is defined as a collection of individuals who are interdependent in the tasks they perform and who share responsibility for the results. Teamwork is the process of collaborating with a group of people in order to achieve a goal. Teamwork is often a crucial part of a company, as colleagues often need to work well together, giving their best in all circumstances. Teamwork means that people will try to cooperate, using their individual skills and providing constructive feedback, despite any personal conflict between individuals (Jones, 2008). Teams of employees are like project teams in which they have limited time, produce one-off results, and perform work that involves applying knowledge, judgment, and experience to the solution of a unique problem (Jackson, 2006). A research study concluded that good managers experience visible pleasure in working with employees in teams. They encourage success rather than threaten failure. They speak to employees in a way they can understand. The good manager is the one who assigns responsibilities to his employee in a group or team form in order to obtain maximum performance from the employees (Jackson, 2006). Another study concluded that it should be possible to design a team building system for employees within every organization in order to promote and deploy best practices and maximize results. The main emphasis in designing and implementing such a system is ultimately to improve employee learning (Washer, 2006). TEAM ASSESSMENT A research study concluded that a teamwork activity contributes to the continuous improvement of an organization. Teamwork activities are important in providing an app...... middle of paper ...... that would constitute a successful interpreter (Wellins, Byham & Wilson, 2004). JOB SATISFACTION According to Hayes (2006) job satisfaction is the key factor that leads to recognition, income, promotion and the achievement of other goals which lead to an overall feeling of fulfillment. The research concluded that teamwork is positively and significantly linked to job satisfaction and that job satisfaction is also positively and significantly linked to job performance. The relationship between performance and teamwork is positively associated with each other. Employers may be able to improve company performance by increasing the volume of team training and taking action to increase workforce performance, but to do so they must also pay attention to the training and teamwork activities on offer ( Jones, 2008).