The most common types of teams used in organizations has the greatest impact on both productivity and quality.

 The four most common types of teams are: functional teams (representing individuals who work together daily on a cluster of ongoing and interdependent tasks); problem-solving teams (which focus on specific issues in their areas of responsibility, develop potential solutions, and often are empowered to take action within defined limits); 

 

cross-functional teams (which bring together the knowledge and skills of people from several specialties or functions to identify and solve mutual problems that cut across departmental and functional lines); and self-managed teams (which normally consist of employees who must work together and cooperate daily to produce an entire good or service, and perform a variety of managerial tasks). 

 

Self-managed teams seem to have the greatest impact on productivity, with documented increases of 30% or more, and have also substantially raised quality in organizations that have used them