@article{2015,title={THE ROLE OF TEAMWORK IN EFFECTIVENESS AND PRODUCTIVITY OF SOCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS: A DISCUSSION IN SECTORIAL CONTEXT},abstractNode={Organizations in the field of social services adopt modern management approaches and practices as so many of the organizations in today’s world. In this context, teamwork is one of the practices that help social service organizations to display high performance. Teamwork considered as a necessary and important component of effective delivery of the social services and many of the social service practices. Such that, organizations in the field of social services increase their effectiveness and productivity by decreasing control over employees, bringing out their potentials, promoting innovation, and improving organizational commitment and motivation with the help of teamwork. The fact that organizations from different sectors, whether it is a private company, a public institute or a non-profit organization, can offer social services is a significant issue in this field. Because of that fact the structural and managerial characteristics of the sectors that organizations belong to differentiate dynamics of teamwork. From this point of view, studying teamwork in social services in the context of sectorial differences has a critical importance to comprehend teamwork in this kind of organizations. Hereby in this study, teamwork is theoretically examined specific to social service organizations and in the context of sectors (private, public and non-profit sectors). This paper reveals that teamwork whose area of usage grows day by day has a key role in effectiveness and productiveness of social service organizations as well as other organization types. It is presumed that the examination of usage of teamwork in different contexts would have significant contributions to improvement of management approach in social services. },author={Adem BALTACI},year={2015},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}