My homework

In many organization,perhaps the best way to approach certain new project is to assemble a group of people into a team. Having a team of people attack a project offers several advantages. First of all, a group of people has a wider range of knwoledge,expertise,and skills than any single individual is likely to possess.Also, because of the nubers of people involved and the greater resources they posses,a group can work more quickly in response to the task assigned to it and can come up with highly creative solutions to problems and issues. Sometimes these creative solutions come about because a group is more likely to make risky decisions that an individual might not undertanke.this is because the group spreads responsibility for a decision to all the members and thus no single individual can be held accountable if the decision turns out to be wrong

Taking part in a group process can be very rewarding for members of the team.Team nenbers who have a vioce in making a decision will no doubt feel better about carryig out the work that is entailed by the decision than they might doing work that is imposed on them by others also,the individual team menber has a much better chance to shine,toget his recognized as highly sughificant, because a team’soverall results can be more far-reaching and have greater impact than what might have otherwise been possible for the person to accomplish or contribute working alone

Prfessor:

Now I want tell you aboyt what one company found when it decided that it would turn over some of its new projects to teams of people,and make the team responsible for plannigthe projects and getting the work done.after about six months,the company took a look at how well the teams performed

On vietually every team,somemembers got almost a free ride ,they didn’t contribute much at all,but if their team did a good job.they nevertheless benefited from the recognition the team got.and what about group members who worked especially well and who provided a lot of insight on problems and issues?well…the recognition for a job well done went to the group as a whole,no names were named. So it won’t surprise you to learn that when the rea contributors were asked how they felt about the groupprocess,their attitude was just the opposite of what the reading predicts.

Another finding was that some projects just didn’t move very quickly.why? because it took do long to reach consensus;it too many, many meetings to build the agreement among group members about how they woud move the project along.On the other hand,there were other instances whee one or two people managed to become very influential over what their group did

Sometimes when those influencers said that will never work about an idea the group was developing,the idea was quickly dropped instead of being further discussed,and then there was anther occasion when a couple influencers convinced the group that a plan of theirs was highly creative and even though some members tired to warm the rest of the group that the project was moving in directions that might not work,they were basiclly ignored by other group members can you guess the ending to this story?when the project failed,the blame was placed on all the menbers of the group.