...MGMT 591 Leadership and Org Behavior Case Study! Part 1: Group Development The Woodson Foundation, the Washington D.C. public school system and The National Coalition for Parental Involvement in Education (NCPIE) have decided to combat a problem within the school district together. The schools have problems with students skipping class, low grades, and crime. Turnover rates for newly hired teachers are high as their enthusiasm for reaching students gets discouraged when they encounter the harsh reality of the classrooms. Woodson Foundation’s was sought due to their ability to raise funds, The district’s ability to garner help from community leaders, coupled with the NPCIE’s ability to get parents involved. (Robbins 629) We find the organization at the Storming Stage. This stage is one of intra-group conflict. Members accept the existence of the group but resist the constraints it imposes on individuality. There is conflict over who will control the group and what path the organization will take to meet its mission. (Robbins 275). Every organization needs to understand that although they will all go through these challenges, the each group needs to contribute in order to meet mission .The internal process is brought about within each group’s individual strengths: 1. The School District has the teaching ability and the backing of the union. 2. The Woodson Group operating as a fundraising and networking powerhouse. 3. The NCPIE knows what the parents of the community...
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...Tiffany Bush MGMT 591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior Professor Barbara Vallera August 1, 2015 Case Study In this case study, The Woodson Foundation is a large nonprofit social service agency that is looking to work with the public schools in Washington D.C. to try and improve the outcome of their students. The schools have problems such as: truancy, low student performance, and crime. The staff that start out new to their school become burn out in a short time frame due to the harsh working conditions. The two parties are attempting to develop a group with will be able to create an after school program for the students. There are many factors that the parties will have to take into account in order for them to be successful. The group members will have to have to become informed about one another and understand what it takes for a group to operate. Each member will have to be motivated and get along with one another. This group has completed the forming stage. There are five stages of group development which are; forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning. With this group and from my understanding of where they are from reading the case, I would conclude that they are in the storming stage. The reason I came to the conclusion is because from the textbook’s definition of forming which is when “great deal of uncertainty about the group’s purpose, structure, and leadership” and from the case study it shows that all the parties do understand...
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...MGMT-591-14505-Leadership & Org Behavior Xiaojun Yu Robert Steinberg Oct. 1, 2014 Case Study After reading the scenario, we know that the Woodson Foundation is a large nonprofit social service agency, which is teaming up with the public school system is Washington, D.C., to improve student outcomes. According to the textbook, I identify the stage of Woodson Foundation is in the norming stage, which is having close relationship develop and the group demonstrates cohesiveness. Team cohesion refers to the mutual attraction attractiveness of the team members, members of the team cohesion, and team members, team cohesion is not only a necessary condition for the existence of maintaining the team, but the team has the potential to play a very important role. If a team loses cohesion, it is impossible to complete the task entrusted to the organization itself will lose the conditions exist. A social psychologist has said that what the cohesion do is to enable members of the group to stay together in groups, which is a kind of interpersonal attraction, attraction it had some similarities mechanics, such as a personal in the play "meteor ball", the meteor ball turn around with center. The primary question that the Woodson Foundation is facing is to figure out the conflict in the development team. Because each group has its own interests, and in some cases these are directly opposed to one another. The second problem is that how to distribute the job for different candidates....
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...Case Study 3 Sean Brandner seanb222@yahoo.com MGMT 591 Professor Schaller 5/18/2014 Part 1: Group Development As per what the text defines in the five stages of group development, the group is at the storming phase. This is the phase where the group has been established and accepted by all parties involved; however each side is struggling to make sure that their ideas and thoughts are present. They are looking for nominees for the administration who ultimately control the group and establish the effectiveness of the end goal. In understanding the five stages of group formation, The Woodson Foundation could have avoided a long and drawn out storming phase. The storming phase is essentially wasted time as the only thing being established are the expectations of what each party feels they are able to contribute. The Woodson Foundation could have done a bit more research before this was underway to better understand the demographic of the community of the people they were going into help. The good news is that they are at least experienced with setting these types of programs up and have had successful results in the past. Part 2: Problem Identification The primary issue with the group at this point is the conflict of interest and how much influence each party should be allowed. The school and foundation are pretty much in league with each other in regards to them sharing the most power. The parents would like to have greater influence and input into...
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...MGMT 591 11/9/2014 Case Study: Building a Coalition Dr. Anne Hallcom Case Study: Building a Coalition for Woodson Foundation The Woodson Foundation, a large nonprofit social service agency, is teaming up with the public school system in Washington, D.C, to improve student outcomes. It appears the schools have problems with truancy, low student performance and crime. The teachers are discouraged to help students due to the disrespect and behavioral issues in the classroom. The turnover rate for the best teachers is high, they tend to leave and go to schools that aren’t as troubled (629). Part 1: Group Development The organization has five stages of group development. In the forming stage they have identified that there is a problem, now the plan is how to drive results. The first stage is bringing the plan forward and forming an executive development team. The team will consist of an HR representative from Woodson, the schools, and the NCPIE. This team’s responsibility is developing an operating plan for improving school performance. It is expected that representatives from both teams participate. Once this stage is finalized they can move on to the storming stage. The storming stage will consist of conflicts. This is an aggressive way to get to know each other a little better. Once the team has gotten over differences they start the norming stage. In this stage they realized although they have differences they still share things in common. The cohesiveness is...
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...Case Study 3: Building a Coalition Keller Graduate School of Management MGMT 591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior March 22, 2015 Part 1: Group Development The five-stage group-development model consists of: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. (Robbins 275) Forming stage. In this first stage, the team is getting to know each other, their backgrounds, work experience, and learning about their strengths and weaknesses. Informal leaders may start to emerge during this stage, and it’s important for management to recognize them. They are getting oriented with their surroundings as well as details about the task at hand. Management should be setting the stage for success by setting roles and responsibilities, providing instruction, guidance, expectations and structure. (Gervais 2014) Storming stage. At this stage, personalities start to come out (good and bad), group norms and/or cliques begin to form, and conflict between one or more of the members occurs. Management must address deviant behavior(s), misunderstandings, gossip/backtalk, etc and encourage communication, trust, and respect for each other. Norming stage. At this point, team members are conforming, getting along, supporting each other, and behaving in line with accepted and established group norms (such as showing up on time, contributing to the group effort, not speaking over each other, etc). Performing stage. At this stage, the team members’ efforts should be synchronized...
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