The development of the skill to work in a team as a research problem

The research presents a detailed analysis of research projects on team building as a mechanism of eff ective use of human potential to improve the quality and effi  ciency of activities in organizations. It was stated that at the end of the XX-beginning of the XXI-centuries this topic was widely studied in sociology management, later- in economics, psychology, pedagogics and less often in technical science. The research gives characteristics to the process of creating a students’ team in stages: the choice of a group leader (formal or informal); the formation under his leadership of a management team of students focused on the eff ective implementation of managing  functions, the creation of a united  team of like-minded people as part of a creative / educational / scientifi c team. There have been identifi ed areas for research which haven’t yet been described in other sources: the conditions for  functioning of homogeneous and heterogeneous students’ teams, the factors of the organization of extracurricular student art groups, the methodological basis of a united team work of school teachers, university teachers and students.