Team building in the context of organizational development of innovative companies

The main topic of the research is justification of the effectiveness of such organizational development method as ‘teambuilding’. The article shows the role and place of teambuilding in the system of innovative companies’ organizational development and contains the example of teambuilding activities in a large innovative company - producer of electronics. An attempt has been made to analyze how the existing system of individual material motivation in the company is interrelated with team management methods. The objective of the research is to evaluate the effectiveness of teambuilding activities including the ‘Introduction to Company’ training, teambuilding training and ‘Sales and Service’ training. The novelty of the work is in application of innovative research methods: Seashore's Group Cohesiveness Index, Group Entitativity Measure test and the method of reflected subjectivity measurement by V. A. Petrovskiy. The result is the validation of positive correlation between training as an organizational development method and the level of group cohesion in the company, which, in its turn, raises the professional level of personnel, their involvement in the work of the company and their capability to solve problems more efficiently.