In the most general form, it can be characterized as a subject-object-subjective interaction, where the perception of the subject-participant of the activity turns out to be mediated by his “place” in the implementation of local activity, i.e. position in relation to the object of activity. A. L. Zhuravlev (1999) considers the following main features of joint activity:
1) The presence of common goals for various participants involved in the activity; like any form of cooperation, it is caused by the need to achieve such goals that are inaccessible to an individual participant in the activity or are available only partially;
2) Participants in joint activity, in addition to individual motives, have an incentive to work together, i.e. a common motivation must be formed;
3) The necessary division of a single process of achieving a certain common goal of activity into some components, functionally related sets of actions (operations) and their distribution among the participants of this process;
4) Unification (combination) of individual activities, understood as the formation of the integrity of joint activity and leading to the emergence of interconnections and interdependencies between the participants of joint activity determined by activity;
5) Agreed, coordinated implementation of distributed and united individual activities of all participants in joint activities in a strict sequence of operations;
6) The need for management;
7) The presence of a single final result, common to the participants of the joint activity, which arose precisely in order to create this result;
8) A single space of temporary joint functioning.