Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Teamwork has been a key factor in the progress, evolution and survival of humanity.Chapter 11 of Genesis demonstrates people working as a team to build a giant brick tower.Their dream stated that this structure will "reach to the heavens, so that they may make a name for themselves," (Genesis 11:4).There are a lot that should not be imitated in this story-like their pride, arrogance, direct disobedience to God in their action.While the tower of Babel does not end well, it is a fascinating lesson on teamwork.They had a shared vision, "Come let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens."Common vision is a unifier that takes the mundane and infuses it with meaning.With a unifying vision, a team's energy, effort, and focus is channeled towards a single goal that matters most.They had the correct tools, good communication.Their principle of teamwork fosters results, but for their disobedience, they did not reach the peak of their accomplishment.Nehemiah 4, gives an outstanding result of teamwork.When Nehemiah was leading the rebuilding of the wall around Jerusalem, enemies of the Israelites kept trying to attack them while they work.But the action from Nehemiah shows how great teamwork helped get the job done.Everyone worked together to rebuild the wall.Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 says, "two are better than one, because together they can work more effectively.If one of them falls down, the other can help him up."Therefore, teamwork provides and foster better results for organizations than individual work.Fostering teamwork is considered one of the most effective work forms.Working in teams also benefit the individual on a personal level as it fulfills needs such as social interaction and spiritual affiliation.Regardless of the importance that teamwork brings to organizations tremendous growth, many managerial leaders at various levels still do little to foster teamwork for effective growth in their domains of leadership.Given the globalized economy and leadership styles especially in Christian organizations of the twenty-first century, there is a lot to learn on how to apply team work for effective growth in a multi-ethnic church organization like in ECWA.Effective team work has benefits that include effectiveness at improving employee's skills and interpersonal relationships at workplace, quality of work life, job satisfaction and performance organizational effectiveness growth.Hence, fostering teamwork for effective growth is a timely subject for current generation and beyond.This paper employs a descriptive narrative on the subject using Scriptural passages, some secondary sources and some vivid illustrations to treat the subject.It introduces the subject, statement of the problem, defines what is fostering teamwork, Scriptural examples on fostering teamwork, lessons on teamwork from how geese fly, fostering teamwork process for effective growth, five basic steps to fostering effective teamwork, recommendations for better teamwork, sup up, and some questions for further study.
Author: Mipo E. Dadang
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4410570763