▶ Your Answer :
The speaker casts doubts the idea of reading passage that working as a team is good.
First of all, it is said in the reading passage that working as a team helps the members save their time. In other words, they can find the solution to one problem as soon as possible because they have everyone has their own idea and they can reach the solution faster than one person does. However, the speaker mentions that it could be more time to reach a solution because sometimes, they debate each other, and it is very difficult to get agreement.
Secondly, the speaker contradicts the idea that they can access various ideas about a problem. If one or two persons have strong personalities, other people can follow the idea whose personalities are strong without critics because they feel afraid of expressing their own idea.
Thirdly, the writer mentions that teamwork encourages people to do their best doing their work not to harm others. However, the speaker maintains that it can have contain free rider problem. If especially, one or two persons in a team try to do their project very hard, others tend not to do anything because they can get the same rewards as hard workers even though they do not do anything.
In conclusion, the speaker totally contradict that teamwork has lots benefits. |