For this assignment, refer to the “Working in Teams” video media
piece.
Before addressing the assignment criteria listed below, view the
“Working in Teams” video as many times as necessary to familiarize
yourself with the characters and the issues as they relate to the objectives of
this topic.
Write a paper (1,500-1,750 words) in which you address the following:
1. Define
the three criteria for evaluating effective team/group work (as stated in the
textbook) and analyze whether the “team” in the video is effective or
not.
2. Provide
a review of Tuckman’s five stages of group formation and identify what stages
are evident in the video. Explain your answer.
3. Review
your textbook on the specific types of task, maintenance, and dysfunctional
roles in teams, and identify who is playing what specific role in the video.
Explain your answer.
4. Was
the communication among the participants in the video effective or not? Justify
your answer (this is not just an opinion). Was the message and meaning
conveyed? Was there active listening? What types of noise were evident in the
video?
5. The
textbook describes two main types of conflict. Define them and then describe
the conflict that is evident in the video. Propose how Joe Tanney should manage
the conflict in this video using one direct conflict management and one
indirect conflict management approach? Explain your response.
6. Based
on what you saw in the “Working in Teams” video, would you
say that the people in the video make up agroup or ateam?
Explain your answer.
7. Identify
the major motivational problems evident in the video and provide a total of
four suggestions for motivating the people in the video. Be sure to use one
motivational theory from each area (content theories, process theories,
reinforcement theories, and job enrichment model), and be sure to apply each
theory to at least one of the four people in the video.
