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[[File:Type 91 SAM fire.JPG|thumb|A [[Japan Air Self-Defense Force]] (JASDF) team looks on after the Type 91 Kai MANPAD fires a rocket at a mock airborne target.]]

Although the concept of a team is relatively simple, social scientists have identified many different types of teams. In general, teams either act as information processors, or take on a more active role in the task and actually perform activities. Common categories and subtypes of teams include:

====Action teams====
An action team is a group of people with leadership skills. It devises strategies, analyze situations and execute needed actions.

====Advisory teams====
Advisory teams make suggestions about a final product (Devine, 2002). For instance, a [[quality control|quality-control]] group on an assembly line would be an example of an advisory team: they may examine the products produced and make suggestions about how to improve the quality of the items being made. A product reaches the final stage and is put for sales after getting approved by the advisory teams. The advisory team consists of experts who possess extraordinary skills.

====Command team====
The goal of the command team is to combine instructions and to coordinate action among management. In other words, command teams serve as the "''middle man''" in tasks (Devine, 2002). For instance, messengers on a construction site, conveying instructions from the executive team to the builders, would be an example of a command team.{{Clarify|date=August 2017}}

==== Executive team ====
An executive team is a management team that draws up plans for activities and then directs these activities (Devine, 2002). An example of an executive team would be a construction team designing blueprints for a new building, and then guiding the construction of the building using these blueprints.

==== Project teams ====
{{Main|Project team}}
A team used only for a [[define]]d period of time and for a separate, concretely definable purpose, often{{quantify|date=April 2016}} becomes known as a project team. This category of team includes negotiation-, commission- and design-team subtypes. In general, these types of teams are multi-talented and composed of individuals with expertise in many different areas. Members of these teams might belong to different groups, but receive assignment to activities for the same [[project]], thereby allowing outsiders to view them as a single unit. In this way, setting up a team allegedly facilitates the creation, tracking and assignment of a group of people based on the project in hand.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}}  The use of the "team" label in this instance often has no relationship to whether the employees work as a team.

Lundin and Soderholm define project teams as a special case in the more general category of temporary organizations which also includes task forces, program committees, and action groups.  All of these are formed to "make things happen". This emphasis on action leads to a demarcation between the temporary organization and its environment.  The demarcation is driven by four interrelated concepts (the four T's):
#Time – the time horizons and limits are crucial to the existence of temporary organizations "whose very existence helps spread a sense of urgency".
#Task – the raison d` ètre for the temporary organization; no other party is attending to the same task at the same time in the same way
#Team – provides the human resources to accomplish the task in the time available
#Transition – an accomplishment or some sort of qualitative difference is expected after the time horizon
"The concepts also differ from the crucial concepts that define the permanent organization. Permanent organizations are more naturally defined by goals (rather than tasks), survival (rather than time), working organization (rather than team) and production processes and continual development (rather than transition)"
<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Lundin|first1=R. A.|last2=Soderholm|first2=A.|year=1995|title=A Theory of the Temporary Organization|journal=Scandinavian Journal of Management|volume=11|issue=4|pages=437–455|doi= 10.1016/0956-5221(95)00036-U}}</ref>

====Sports teams====
{{Main|Sports team}}
A [[sport]]s team is a group of people which play [[sports]] (often [[team sports]]) together.  Members include all players (even those who are waiting their turn to play), as well as support members such as a team manager or [[Coach (sport)|coach]].

====Virtual teams====
{{Main|Virtual team}}
Developments in [[information and communications technology]] have seen the emergence of the virtual work-team. A virtual team is a group of people who work interdependently and with shared purpose across space, time, and organisational boundaries using technology to communicate and collaborate. Virtual team members can be located across a country or across the world, rarely meet face-to-face, and include members from different cultures.<ref>[https://ssrn.com/abstract=634645 Kimble et al. (2000)] Effective Virtual Teams through Communities of Practice (Department of Management Science Research Paper Series, 00/9), University of Strathclyde, Strathclyde, UK, 2000.</ref>

In their 2009 literature-review paper, Ale Ebrahim, N., Ahmed, S. and Taha, Z. added two key issues to definition of a [[virtual team]]: "as small temporary groups of geographically, organizationally and/ or time dispersed [[knowledge workers]] who coordinate their work predominantly with electronic information and communication technologies in order to accomplish one or more organization tasks".<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Taha|first1=Zahari|last2=Ahmed|first2=Shamsuddin|last3=Ale Ebrahim|first3=Nader|date=2009-12-21|title=Virtual R& Teams in Small and Medium Enterprises: A Literature Review|journal=Social Science Research Network|ssrn=1530904}}</ref> Many virtual teams are solving customer problems or generating new work processes.

====Work teams====
Work teams are responsible for the actual act of creating [[Goods|tangible products]] and services (Devine, 2002). The actual workers on an assembly line would be an example of a production team, whereas waiters and waitresses at a diner would be an example of a service team.