The research aimed at determining the effect of work team size (number of members
per team) on the effectiveness of teams working at the Scientific Agricultural Research
Center (SARC) in Lattakia. This is in addition to determining the best team si
ze for these
teams. The study used the T7 Model, a questionnaire used for measuring work team
effectiveness. The questionnaire was distributed on to 190 members who constituted 44
teams. The 44 teams were the study sample chosen from the whole research community
which constituted the work teams in (SARC)
The study revealed a number of results of which are the following: there is a
significant negative correlation between team size and all the internal factors affecting
effectiveness, together with significant differences between the effectiveness of small
teams and big teams. However, there is no correlation between team size and the external
factors affecting team effectiveness.
