Groups and Teams Paper

Groups and Teams Paper

David Barclay

MGT/312

4/11/2016

Brent Boardman

Groups and Teams Paper

In today business world, we have to work in groups or work teams. A work team has members who work interdependently on a specific, common goal to produce an end results for their business. A work group is two or more individuals who are interdependent in their accomplishments and may or may not work in the same department. Once again, the differences are subtle, but the main thread is a team works together and shares in the outcome, while a group is more independent of each other.

Here are the results from my self-assessment: Evaluate (Your) Team Member Effectiveness. Under contributing to the teams work, I scored 19 out 25 points, which gave me a moderate contribution level. Under interacting with teammates, I scored a 24 of 25 points, which gave me high level of interaction. Under keeping the team on track, I scored 20 out of 25 points, which gave me a highly skilled at keeping on track. Under expecting quality, I scored 12 out of 15 points, which gave me a high quality expectations. Under having relevant knowledge, skills, and abilities, I scored 8 out of 10 points, which gave me a highly relevant knowledge and skills.

There are five stages of group development and also describe one positive and negative o element of forming these groups. The first one is forming stage. This is where personal relation are characterized by dependence. This is also where group members rely on safe, patterned of behavior and look to the group leader for guidance and direction. The group members have a desire for acceptance by the group and a need to know that the group is safe. The major task function also orientation. Members attempt to become oriented to the tasks as well as to one another. The discussion centers around defining the scope of the task, how to approach it, and similar concerns. The second is the storming stage. This is characterized by competition and conflict in the personal-relations dimension an organization in the task-functions dimension. The group attempts to organize for the task, conflict inevitably results in their personal relations. The order to progress to the next stage, group members must move from a “testing and proving” mentality to a problem-solving mentality. This is the most important trait in helping groups to move on to the next stage. The third is norming. In this stage, interpersonal relations are characterized by cohesion. The members are engaged in active acknowledgment of all members’ contributions, community building and maintenance, and solving of group issues. The major task