Teams today need to run well, but practice shows that teams can also run very poorly, thus having a major negative impact on both individual employees and the organization as a whole (Carton & Cummings, 2012; Hackman, 1998). This is often due to excessive procedures, policies, planning and control or because organizations establish self-managing teams and then leave team members to their own devices (Weggeman, 2007). This increases the likelihood of developing dysfunction, burnout, stress and absenteeism. So in a lot of cases, you need to offer team members more support in working together. The demand for tools to enable teams within professional organizations to function successfully autonomously is therefore increasing enormously within many organizations.

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