Identify and describe the basic types of teams that exist within organizations.

The basic types of teams that are used in organizations include committees, project teams and task forces, cross-functional teams, employee involvement teams, virtual teams, and self-managing work teams. Each of these teams is described below:
A committee brings people together outside of their daily job assignments to work in a small team for a specific purpose. The task agenda is typically narrow, focused, and ongoing A committee's membership may change over time even as the committee remains in existence.
Project teams or task forces bring together people from various parts of an organization to work on common problems, but on a temporary rather than permanent basis. Official tasks are very specific and time defined. A task force or project team disbands once the stated purpose has been accomplished.
A cross-functional team has members who come from different functional units to work on a specific problem or task, and to do so with the needs of the whole organization in mind. These teams share information, explore new ideas, seek creative solutions, meet project deadlines, and are not limited by purely functional concerns and demands.
Employee involvement teams are groups of workers who meet on a regular basis outside of their formal assignments, with the goal of applying their expertise and attention to continuous improvement.
Virtual teams are teams of people who work together and solve problems through largely computer-mediated rather than face-to-face interactions.
Self-managing work teams are teams of workers whose jobs have been redesigned to create a high degree of task interdependence, and who have been given authority to make many decisions about how they do the required work. The self-management responsibilities include planning and scheduling work, training members in various tasks, sharing tasks, meeting performance goals, ensuring high quality, solving day- to-day operating problems and, in some cases, "hiring" and "firing" team members.