“Application of ants based techniques for team building in the modern organisations - A conceptual framework”

Today's global environment has become intensely competitive for business organizations. Only the organizations which are adaptable and responsive to the changes will be able to survive and succeed. Innovative techniques are required to build responsive organization. One of the building blocks of a responsive organization is adaptable work teams. The performance of work team depends upon its Synergy, efficiency and adaptability. Today's organizational teams are not consistent, effective, and responsive enough to changes for several reasons. Nature offers us an invaluable wisdom learned and tested over the course of millions of years. One such area for learning from nature is to look at nature's most successful living biological teams like Ants which can provide useful guidelines on how teams need to operate to become truly successful, consistent and responsive to the changing environment. Although there are several approaches to build a team, there exists a need for new techniques to build and sustain a more cohesive, cooperative, committed and adaptable team with higher synergy and performance. Nature provides an insight to deal with such team management situations. This study focuses on one of the natures most successful ants’ teams because of their unique social organization and ability to work together cohesively. By studying ants’ organization we are actually learning the wisdom of the nature. This insight could be applied and adapted in organizations to build more effective work teams.