The importance of team building is well established , and its use is expected to grow even faster in the coming years. Management teams are encountering issues of greater complexity and uncertainty, especially in such fast-growing industries as electronics, entertainment, information technology and processing , and health and financial services. Team building can provide the kind of teamwork and problem solving skills needed to tackle such issues. As manufacturing and service technologies continue to develop, for example, just-in-time inventory systems, manufacturing cells, robotics , and service quality concepts , there is increasing pressure on organizations to implement team based work designs. Team building can assist in the development of group goals and norms that support high productivity and quality of work life. The globalization of work and organizations implies that people from different cultures and geographic locations increasingly will interact over complex management and operational tasks. Team building is an excellent vehicle for examining cross-cultural issues and their impact on decision making and problem solving. When such groups represent the senior management of an organization, team building can help establish a coherent corporate strategy and can promote the kind of close cooperation needed to make this new form of governance effective. Finally, in today’s business situation, mergers and acquisitions are increasing rapidly. The success of these endeavors depends partly on getting members from different organizations to work together effectively. Team building can facilitate the formation of a unified team with common goals and procedures.