What is a workplace team? Distinguish worker-directed teams and manager-directed teams.Teams may offer a solution by reducing silos and generating prosocial opportunities for cooperation and respect laying the groundwork for new relationships transcending racial/ethnic barriers particularly for minorities, often subject to both formal isolation. Yet critical management research suggests that the benefits of teamwork may be circumscribed by team processes the heighten conflict and competition across sociodemographic fault lines. imangers often implement teams to encourage peer discipline , which can lead to distrust and hostilities, and heighten work intensity , generating cynicism. Teamwork may layoffs and growing job insecurity , leading workers to scapegoat racial/ethnic outsiders