Demise of Teamwork

This lack of teamwork is endemic today.  Let me suggest one reason for it, which you have not touched.  It is lack of job tenure.  On average, today, people change jobs at least every five years; in some organizations it is even shorter.  Teamwork assumes people are in place long enough to build teams, but in our Free Agent Nation today, the system treats people like throw-way widgets. The result is workers do not care about their jobs for they cannot count on having a job regardless of how well they do their jobs.  JC Penny just laid off 2,000 workers overnight by closing 33 stores. More and more, bean counters on Wall Street decide what lives and dies, not actual production; people in the workplace are becoming alert to this.  Therefore, today, we need to factor length of job tenure before we embark on OD action plans.  Sadly, much of OD comes yet from the old Industrial Age when people could stand at an assembly line for 20-30 years and get a promotion and pension for good work.  This is no longer the case.  Think on this, for it is the reality of the 21st-century workplace.  This is not to fault what you have proposed; it only adds another dynamic to factor in your OD analysis and plan.  Good luck.  Dr. Rux