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and promote group cohesiveness I have called the team mainte-
nance need. After all, everyone knows what a team is.

Individual needs

Thirdly, individuals bring into the group their own needs – not
just the physical ones for food and shelter (which are largely
catered for by the payment of wages these days) but also the
psychological ones: recognition; a sense of doing something
worthwhile; status; and the deeper needs to give to and receive
from other people in a working situation. These individual
needs are perhaps more profound than we sometimes realise.

They spring from the depths of our common life as human
beings. They may attract us to, or repel us from, any given
group. Underlying them all is the fact that people need one
another not just to survive but to achieve and develop person-
ality. This growth occurs in a whole range of social activities –
friendship, marriage and neighbourhood – but inevitably work
groups are extremely important because so many people spend
so much of their waking time in them.

The three circles interact

Now these three areas of need overlap and influence one
another. If the common task is achieved, for example, then that
tends to build the team and to satisfy personal human needs in
individuals. If there is a lack of cohesiveness in the team circle –
a failure of team maintenance – then clearly performance in the