Wikipedia Trail: from "Team" to "Motivation"

Oklahoma Sooner photo

My Wikipedia trail for week 4 started at "team" , suggested to me by my step son, Landyn. He is a huge sports fanatic. A team is a group of people or linked together in a common purpose. For example, the University of Oklahoma's football team works together to complete a variety of plays set forth by their team leader, their coach.

Team constructing or "Team building" uses collaborative tasks to enhance team unity and define roles within the team. Overtime these tools are thought to improve the teams performance, especially organizational performance.

"Organization development" is the study of successful organizational change and performance of teams over time. Organizational development is thought to influence the motivation of teams. These studies began in the 1930.

"Motivation" is a theoretical construct used to explain certain behaviors, such as actions, desires, and needs. A team that is not motivated to win usually performs badly, but a team that is highly motivated to win has a better chance of doing so.