Team Organisation of Labour, a collective form of organising and stimulating labour at the primary socialist production cell. The greater interrelation of various components of the production process, the further development of mechanisation, the introduction of large units and machines, and the growing continuity of technological processes are the objective foundation for the more extensive spread of the team organisation of labour. It presupposes: the voluntary union of the workers for joint and coordinated performance of production assignments, the manufacture of finished products or their finished parts 353 (article, assembly unit, set of parts, part); the development and realisation of technological, organisational and educational initiatives in order to ensure better conditions for fruitful labour; work on one order; mutual replacement and mutual assistance in various operations; control and self- control of the quality of work, accounting and appraisal of the results of work of the team as a whole and of each worker in it; determination of the forms and methods of material and moral incentives for the quantity and quality of work with due account of results; relations based on agreements with related teams and services. Production teams participate in decision-making on the matter of selecting their personnel, planning and organisation of their work, payment and stimulation of labour, education of their members and raising their qualification; give their consent to the management’s nominee to the post of a team leader; have the right to demand that the management relieve him from his post if he has failed to justify the collective’s confidence; elect their team council. The team organisation of labour has led to what is called the team contract. It is a method of economic activity based on the recoupment of the expenses and on material incentives provided to the collective for efficiently carrying out a definite amount of work or producing high-quality products on schedule. The team contract can be used in various production conditions, and it invariably ensures high economic effect. The collective wage is distributed among team members in accordance with the wagerated skill-category and actual work time contributed. The rate of work participation is used to more fully account for the worker’s contribution to the overall effort. In this case the wage is determined with due account of how a certain member of the team fulfils his work duties, whether he helps less experienced and less qualified workers or not, etc. The team is headed by the team leader, appointed from among the most experienced and qualified workers and who has a creative flair for work and enjoys the respect of his fellow workers. Teams with over 10 members have group leaders (more experienced workers) and elect a team council at a general meeting, which guides the life of the team, drawing every worker into the management of the team. Councils of team leaders are formed for workshops or enterprises in order to spread the team organisation of labour and to exchange experience. Practice has fully confirmed the economic and social advantages of team organisation. It complies to the greatest extent with the requirements of scientific and technical progress, making workers interested in achieving high results with minimum outlays, encourages workers, especially young workers, to raise their qualifications, and creates conditions for personnel to stay at their enterprise. Machines and materials are used to the best of advantage; losses and unproductive expenditures of work time are reduced; labour becomes less monotonous and richer in content, and brings satisfaction to the workers. The team organisation of labour helps every worker to reveal his abilities more fully, while the role of the collective grows in cultivating a communist attitude to labour. In the llth five-year plan period teams will be the main form of labour organisation.