Teamwork- A HR fad

One of the most harmful disease that ails all large and increasingly small companies is the faith in HR fad of teamwork.

Companies spend tons and tons of money on holding teambuilding workshops and paying consultants who really make fool out of the managers and workers alike. They make you play stupid games like pulling a wire, god & bone, sharing intimate details about each other. Imagine the stupidity of asking grown up mature guys to share their fantasies, dreams, fear, one got to be a dumbass to really believe that anyone will expose themselves. So managers and workers alike use this opportunities to create the kind of image they wish to create for themselves.

Large corporations really make people is figuring out the mask that make them get ahead.

HR is the most insecure and damaging function that ever was created. They label people and write the obituaries of many careers and kill people in real sense.

Ok, what is the field where teamwork is a must and one is completely dependent o others for their survival?

Its Army.

In a war, success of one means nothing, either all wins or all losses.

Do they have a HR function in army?

Never.

Are they talking of creating a HR department in Army?

No.

That says it.

Team work automatically happens where each one on the team brings unique and complementary skill so that collective success happens through the contribution of each individual in the team.

People being mature, they work with other where their success is dependent on contribution of each in the team and they work together even if they don't like each other.

Its a problem that a big company have too many managers and hence most of the time there will be people bringing similar skills and competencies on the table and hence chase the same pie and we see issues which are used by HR to creat artificial work for themselves in enhancing teamwork.

Form the team right, the teamwork will follow definitely.

I dont have to either sleep or love someone to deliver fantastic results so long I know I cannt deliver without the other person delivering his share.

Welcome all comments and criticism to this view of mine. This got formed over the period of my 12 years of working life with a large MNC who has a large HR function and have got any meaningful growth over last several years.

Also, why in large corporations, most of the time quality of delivery of projects are mediocre at the most?

That's my next post.