Indians Perform Better as Individuals than in Groups/Teams

Hi friends,

Earlier in 90's management studies were not very common in India and therefore, a few were having the idea of the group characteristics. During that period, being ignorant to the different stages of a group, Indians preferred to work as an individual. Off-late, with more and more students opting for management studies, we understood that group has stages viz. forming, storming, norming and performing.

So the argument within the group, which were earlier considered as impediments for accomplishing any given task, are now being considered merely as stage of group and we know that all these arguments are leading towards giving the best ideas resulting in fulfilling the responsibilities perfectly.

The best example for groups, performing better than an individual is the Self Help Group in the field of micro finance. These SHGs are being considered, all over the world, as better option for extending financial assistance as compared to financing to an individual.

So I would say that the present era is the era of working in group and another example, in Indian politics, is the collation government and contesting elections with allies, which now a days is said to be the future of Indian Politics.

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I personally think that neither the individual nor the team is better but it depends on the field in which the work or task is done because for example take a look at the sports only if you are playing in Indian Cricket team it is a collective job to win the match not that Sachin only hits century or zaheer takes five wickets or so its team efforts at the same time when you see the other sports like in olympics games where in any game for that matter if its running 100meters individual has to run not the whole India will come and win the race for you.

Therefore I would say the cheer passion and courage to do the task is very important.

Hi friends.

The subject in simple way, the difference between "I" & "WE" and it also give you answer if you think deeply about question. When we work as I & When we work as WE you get the difference.

I - selfishness, ego & try to put extra work on coliuges head, Result-60% achievment.

WE - integrity, new idea generate, high leval of confidence, accept to face d risk. Result-100% Achievment.

So as per my view team work is better than Individuals. Lastly we are Indians.

Hi to all. Friends i believe that it wont be appropriate to say that indians perform good in team or as an individual,they perform better. I think the primary reason being we have to categorise our discussion. For instance, take literature, science etc, these are the fields where individual performance is a must. Now look at the other side of the coin, fields like politics, sports, corporate house etc, they are more of a collective team-work.

Some of my friends have stated very good examples of Anna Hazare, Arundhati Roy, Bhagat Singh, Mahatma Gandhi, Rajat Gupta etc. Needless to say that they have all set benchmarks in their respective fields but I must make a mark here that it all matters to the field you are working in. When we talk of big enterprises, they have a business environment in which individual as well as team-work, both matters a lot.

We say India is an Agriculture-driven land,but we look in the deep roots, even that is a collective effort. The food grains available in the market is a chain supply from the farmers to the brokers and government and finaaly to the retailers.

Not to mention that we have the second biggest workforce in the world. We have many hands to work and many heads to eat. We have been taught since our childhood to live in a united culture and as we grew up, the fierce competition teaches us to be ahead of others. Thus focussing more on individual work. As we move onto the business world, we learn to gain competitve edge from others though working with them.

So i must say it all depends on the environment,the type of work-field,the competition etc.
It will be wrong to flip a coin and say that indians are good as team then individuals or vice-versa.

Friends, i really appreciate the points put forward by all of you. When we look at Indians, we can see a mixed pattern. For example, take some freedom fighters like Bhaghat Singh, Tantia Tope, Mangal Pandey...all were good but were not able to achieve their primary objective of making India independent...but it was only when Mahatma Gandhi came into senario with his huge supporters, we attained freedom. The same applies to Mass movement against corruption led by 74 year old Anna Hazare. Here one can see that Indians have done well in groups.
But we cannot also ignore the achievements of people like Abhinav Bindra, Susheel Kumar, Saina Nehwal, PT Usha, Karnam Malleshwari, etc who made our country proud in olympics. These are few names of Indians who excelled as individuals than in groups.

Therefore, we can say that Indians are good as individual as well as in groups.

To win a war, group work is needed. Any organization sustains on group work and all employees have to work for a single vision of the company. Indians, from the ancient past have set an example of group work from the time of freedom to establishing greater heights in business, manufacturing industries etc, but due to severe competition and the urge to perform, people tend to forget the importance of group effort. So training and development programs should be provided to Indians to work better in a group and succeed in doing the job efficiently.

From all the examples before us it seems indians prefer working as an individual rather than in groups. Take for example people like sania mirza, mahesh bhupati, vishwanathan anand who have excelled in their own fields of interest. And in industries there are persons like Arun Netravalli whose is the head of the AT & T bell laboratries. But there are instances were indians have performed well in teams. Like the freedom movement. Were gandhiji held the torch but couldnt have done it without the help of the other. This is the instance were an individual took the initiative and a team put it in to a successful mission.

Similar is the case with the mission of chandrayaan. Were an individuals dream was put in to action by a very big team of scientists.

Actually to get any friutful worth following terms are required:

1. Strategical planning regarding the task
2. Hard work without any procrastination
3. Zero percent distraction in the work.

The difference here is the stress or the pressure of particular task or work will be on:

1. Single man show for the single person.
2. Group of a members show for the team .

So one could n't decide which is the purposeful thing it actually depends on the one own's efficiency of the performance regarding the particular task.

See Folks!! The question is not about is our cricket team is playing good or not. Look if it is like so why the hockey team is not on the Top. Indians are a little bit more emotional than the other world. We perform like anything, and we adjust with any situation. But soon enough the passion goes down if somebody get promoted among the same team. They will more happier if nobody get prometed :)
So according to me Indians are not good performer as a team. Indians always need a boss to perform better not genuis Coworker.

The first thing that's to mind if we talk about team is the Indian cricket team. Team work is about the unity but we cant ignore in teams there can be group-ism and ego clashes also. As individuals, We can think of Dr. Vijay Mallay who has single handily taken his company UB Group to great heights. In team we if perform to our best efforts and are more deserving we may treated the same as the person hasn't perform that well. Individuals have to rely on themselves to get the work done, which can help them perform exceedingly well.