User:Binky1110/team effectivness peer review

In this peer review i will be evaluating the article on Team Effectiveness. i will be evaluating this article in terms of its lead section quality, structure, sources used, neutrality, and balanced coverage. For starters, the lead section of this article stood out to me for the simple fact that the writer/ editor didn't find it necessary to directly quote a researcher or another writer to effectively define the term Team Effectiveness. Even without this direct quotation i was able to clearly understand what the article was going to cover as well as the relevance of Team Effectiveness. As stated in the article, "Teams and groups have established a synonymous relationship within the confines of processes and research relating to their effectiveness (i.e. group cohesiveness, teamwork) while still maintaining their independence as two separate units, as groups and their members are independent of each other's role, skill, knowledge or purpose versus teams and their members, who are interdependent upon each other's role, skill, knowledge and purpose." This statement clearly summed up the fact that teams have made it a priority to manage how effective their team really is. The lead section of this article clarifies to any reader who is reading this article at first glance what the topic is, as well as what the article will be covering.

The structure of this article is clear and to the point. While the overall topic is Team Effectiveness, the writer/editor takes the time to discuss the different types of teams and how team effectiveness pays a role in that specific type of team. For example, a section in the article covers Parallel teams and it states that a parallel team is basically a team that combines individuals from different work units to complete a specific task. It then goes on to say that this team assesses it's effectiveness based on its ability to expand and keep employee's involved. The clear structure of this section alone can help a reader to understand how this team in particular works and how they get their tasks done well ( aka effectiveness). Giving each type of team its own section in this article worked well in making the structure clear because it gives readers a different insight on how team effectiveness works from these different aspects.

The language used in this article doesn't feel as if the writer/editor is drawing an conclusions or taking any particular stance on Team Effectiveness. This article is simply presenting information that is out there on the topic of Team Effectiveness. After looking through the sources that were used, the writer/editor could've included research that was done in this field, like what specific types of jobs require what type of team(s), but apart from that the article seems to pinpoint all the important aspects on Team Effectiveness. Every section in this article holds equal importance to the topic. and no one section is longer than the other for biased purposes, but just for the purposes of explaining that idea and its relevance to the topic.

Overall, the article is written with a neutral standpoint and uses neutral sources to present this information. the sources are reliable in that there are no primary sources, and the sources used are from reliable websites, journals, or articles. The article doesn't focus on the negatives or the positives of Team Effectiveness, which i found to be the easiest way to prevent the article from presenting any bias or personal ideas. Almost every statement throughout the article is cited, and the source used is cited accurately.

In conclusion, this article is well written and includes necessary information about the topic of Team Effectiveness. One important change that could be made to the article is including any research that was done that could be relevant to this topic. This would be an improvement because, along with citing sources to explain the topic, discussing research does well in conveying how the topic is used in present day and its relevance. One technique that i would use in my article that this article used well is giving ideas there own section if and when it is necessary. This makes it simpler for the writer/editor to follow their ideas when writing, as well as the reader when they are reading in an attempt to grasp the concept.