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80) Is it more important to be able to work with a group of people on a team or to work 
independently? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer. 
 
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(a) Human beings are social animal. They need society to live. Living in society means 
living in peace and harmony, cooperating and learning from each other. So it is very 
important to be able to work with a group of people. As it is well said that ‘if you are good 
to others then you are best to yourself’, so accordingly if a person can cope in a group and 
work, that means he is also capable of working independently.
It is very important to be socialized. All the organizations and even homes will have a 
good environment if all members can cooperate. Working in a group means gaining 
leadership spirit, knowing each other, respect for each other, perfection, sharing ideas and 
knowledge, time consuming, easy decision making and over all accurate result. In fact, 
working in a group means the sustainable development of the organization as well as the 
individual. If the person works independently for his own personal matter, it the different 
thing. But even then knowing how to response and how to tackle the situation in the 
personal life can also be improved by learning form others’ real life experience. For this 
sharing of information, experience and knowledge is very important. And all these 
activities directly link with group activities. To be able to work in a group means more 
than working individually. The one who can work in a group well means he is a friendly, 
responsible, punctual, listen to other members, respected by members and cooperative. 
These are very important virtues that each individual should have. Working individually 
may provide self-satisfaction and make the person independent. But as ‘ being respected 
is more important being liked’, the person shall not have the respected and social life. If a 
person can work in a group, he can adopt and work in every type of environment. Even he 
will develop a capacity to adjust himself in every prevailing condition that he may come 
across. Actually we find people not as they are, but as we are, but while working in a 
group we get to know about each other, the values, the cultural diversity and over all life 
style. Thus, the capacity to work in a group means to respect each other for what ever they 
are, develop positive attitude and good behavior. In overall working in a group means to 
develop interpersonal skills, which is very important for developing ourselves and or 
organization. If the person works independently, the there will not be the second opinion, 
not remarks, and even it would be difficult to organize the work in large scale. 
All the organizations in the world are implementing their goals successfully in groups, 
without which globalization would not have been possible. All the institutions, 
organizations and homes can only be good place to work and live if all members can work 
coordinately. Everyone can work independently according to the necessity and until and 
unless there is will. But everyone will not have the capacity to work in-group, which is in 
fact the important for the long-term relationship, and vision. 
Thus, to empower oneself and to empower our home, community, nation and world, every 
one of us must be able to work in-group.