There are four team structure components that, along with team dynamics and development, affect team performance. Conflict, and effectively resolving conflicts without hurting human relations, is important to performance. Leadership is important to team performance.

Composition refers to the diversity of team members. Team mix, or diversity, involves more than gender and race. Important to team performance are the knowledge, abilities, and skills of the team members that should complement each other so that the team can achieve better results than its individuals.

Creative problem solving and decision making also affect team performance. Teams encounter problems and need to make decisions in getting the job done. How decisions are made, autocratic or participative, and the decisions themselves also affect performance.