Organizational Behavior: Building
Community
Find, describe, and evaluate an
organization you are familiar with in relationship to its ability to build
community. Use the following in analyzing how effective the organization
is/might be in doing this:
? characteristics
of the organization’s sub-groups that do/would contribute to or distract from
building community
? examples
of member roles and their positive and negative impact on building community in
their group and in the organization
? examples
of the relationship between individual behavior and group dynamics that
contribute to or detract from building community in the organization
? what
individual behaviors and member roles (yours) support positive group dynamics
and, therefore, the potential to build community in your organization
? what
individual behaviors and member roles of (yours) contribute to negative group
dynamics in your organization and, therefore, the inability to build community
in your organization
? identify
one individual behavior and one member role of yours that you would like to
modify; describe what you will do to make this change; define the outcome(s)
you expect when you are successful for yourself, for the organization, for
building community
Include:
Definitions of: specific behavior,
group member roles, group dynamics, organizations, and community.
Getting started e.g.
information, idfeas and suggestions for each section.
