...Did not show any interest in working with others in the group. | Did not really work well with the other group members. Tended to work alone rather than in collaboration. | Showed the basic ability to work in collaboration with others in the group. Eg Talked through ideas with the group during planning. | Showed constructive and cooperative work with others. Eg Initiated talking with others and checking how the group was progressing. | Showed very good cooperation with others. Worked constructively with the group. Eg Kept in contact and checked regularly with all other members to ensure progress was happening. | /10 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Mark? | Contributes to Group | Mark | An unproductive contributor. | A productive contributor on occasion. Eg a few contributions but only in response to requests from others. | Was generally a productive contributor to the group. Eg a few helpful contributions initiated beyond responses to others’ questions but showed little initiative in taking on different roles such as leading and delegating. | Was a consistently productive contributor to the group. e.g. constructive, relevant tone and comments; had flexibility in taking on different roles such as leading and delegating. | Was a consistently and highly productive contributor to the group. e.g. Comments are clear, constructive and inspiring, provided feedback to others, engaged fully throughout the project. | /10 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10...
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...Leading high-performance teams The team working is an important concept of the society wherein few people work together towards a common goal. In American culture, working in teams often considered contrary. Marvin Weisbord, author and organizational development expert, mentioned that, “Teamwork is the quintessential contradiction of a society grounded in individual achievement.” Still building, leading and organizing successful teams considered as a critical leadership task. It is always challenging to have people work together closely to achieve specific tasks in any team environment. The team is “a group of individuals who work together to produce products or deliver services for which they are mutually accountable.” -- Mohrman et al. The team is “a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.” -- Katzenbach and Smith The team is “two or more people who must coordinate their activities to accomplish a common goal.” -- Shonk High Performance Teams are always working collaboratively and effectively across the organization to accomplish given team tasks and objectives, delivers the competitive results quickly enough to remain as top performers. There are challenges such as team conflicts, obtaining maximum results from the teams and managing highly diverse teams – maintaining teamwork mentality as well capitalizing on the diversity of talents...
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...Title: Being Part of a team is more important than leading it Being part of a team is more important than leading it." Discuss. Author William Nippard on teamwork states that “more than 80% of fortune 500 companies subscribe to teamwork. Teamwork brings success no matter how you define victory.”Teamwork is about a group of people working towards a common objective in a mutually agreeable manner. Being part of team can be a highly rewarding and can help both the individual and the team with increases in individual and organizational creativity, innovation and synergy. These rewards as well as self development and organistational effectiveness are key reasons that being part of the team is more important than leading Claim, data warrant innovation Being part of the team can increase personal creativity and learning new skills and help to deliver any output. In today’s complex business environment, teams are an essential mechanism for delivering any output from something such as building a car to deploying an IT system. Teamwork provides a climate of collaboration such as that ideas can be shared and a common ground established to deliver the required objective. This idea has also been embraced by the business community. Yuki Funo the Chairman and CEO of Toyota motor, states that the “Toyota way is the way to number 1”. One of the principles of the Toyota way is to ‘add value to the organization by developing your people' and people can be developed by molding them into exceptional...
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...between two characters.Discuss how the dramatist’s presentation of the contrast between the two characters adds to your understanding of this central concern. | * The theme of appearance versus reality is clarified by the differences between Blanche and Stanley. * Blanche represents illusion/false appearance – she tries to hide her past, her age. * Stanley represents reality – he is very honest and upfront about the type of person he is, he has no secrets. * They conflict throughout and finally Stanley crushes Blanche’s illusions (by revealing her secrets, confronting her about her lies and raping her) * Reveals the message of the theme – reality will win over illusion, you cannot live a lie. | Choose from a play a scene in which tension builds to a climax.Explain how the dramatist creates and develops this tension, and discuss the extent to which the scene has thematic as well as dramatic significance. | * Scene 10 (the rape scene) builds to a climax with tension being created through the conflict between Blanche and Stanley and the stage directions. * Blanche acts increasingly hysterical and irrational. * Stanley snaps after she calls him a swine and cruelly crushes her illusions, telling her she’s a liar. He becomes threatening and violent and eventually rapes her. * The menacing stage directions (sound, lighting, the streets of New Orleans) add to the tension. * Link to either theme: reality wins over illusion, or desires lead to death for false people...
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...contribute to the same individual success. This success can be achieved at an academic or organizational level, through an individual’s intrapersonal and interpersonal perception of themselves and the world around them. However, without strong intrapersonal dynamics, an individual cannot achieve an equally strong interpersonal perception with their community and the greater world. Strong intrapersonal perception begins with an individual’s self-assessment of what they know, so that they can improve their self-regulated learning skills and be successful (Bercher, 2012). Self-regulated learning is important as it allows an individual to assess and monitor themselves, proving to them their ability or inability to complete a task. This can be achieved through many tools and exercises. Bercher describes the use of a Student Self Assessment Sheet (SASS), which shows how an individual can achieve better learning through cognitive feedback, which usually occurs during the completion of a task. If feedback occurs during the accomplishment of a task, an individual can understand what went wrong and modify their approach to that same task for their next attempt, leading to success. This self-regulation not only enhances one’s intrapersonal perception but it leads to the foundation of creating strong interpersonal communication with others. Strong interpersonal perception is achieved through coordination and social interaction between individuals within a group. Efficient coordination...
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...CONFLICT CHANGES PEOPLE FOR THE BETTER Conflicts can be well known, or hidden from society, can be huge historical occurrences, or can be small and unseen. No matter the scale of the conflicts that occur in our world, people, whether directly involved or not, are always changed for the better. A famous example of how conflict changed people occurred in World War Two, where the Japanese soldiers captured many women and children from Singapore. This historical happening of the Second World War has been captured through the art of film by Bruce Beresford. The film, ‘Paradise Road’ told the historical story of these women, whose growth through experiences of conflict changed them for the better. Another famous example comes from the life of Sir Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop. This great Australian man, put others before himself, something he may not have done when living in Australia, shows how the conflicts he found himself in changed him. Oprah Winfrey, a great African-American woman may seem like a woman who has it all, but what many do not realise, her early life lead saw many hardships in which she needed to overcome in order to be where she is today. No matter the situation, these historical men and women all needed conflict to change for the better. The film ‘Paradise Road’ is the perfect example of how conflict enables one to grow through their experiences. The women (who were taken to the camp) started off as important members of society, coming for highly esteemed classes of...
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...There are definitely multiple forms of conflict develop over the course of Slated. The dominant type of conflict portrayed in this story is man vs. society. As everyone in society attempts to figure out the reason behind the disappearances of friends and family around the world, they spring the blame on anyone and everyone in society except for the people that they should be pointing a finger at, this results in the government tightening the reins on the people even more making the stakes higher. Tense private and public discussion breaks out about false accusations that causes many problems although it wasn’t ever meant to be like that. When all citizens (predominantly Kyla and Ben) start to realize what has really been going on, terrorists...
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...Institutions in which the organizational culture is highly evolved have invested in developing strong internal value systems to resolve ethical dilemmas and value conflicts, and ensure high performance, quality, social responsibility and employee professional satisfaction. Such investments contribute to both individual and organizational development and growth. There is a need to develop a viable organizational culture in institutions of the National Agricultural Research System (NARS). This paper is concerned with how strong-willed and disciplined research and education managers, scientists and teachers can contribute to the development and operationalization of strong internal value systems in NARS. Three kinds of situations, where value conflicts can arise are identified. These relate to individual identity, identifying with the group in the work place, and organizational identity in society. By learning to identify each kind of value conflict situation, individuals can learn to resolve value conflicts in a practical way by a combination of self-inquiry and introspection with shrewedness and realism. The extent to which an individual can do this, without losing either his self-respect or his self-confidence determines the level of his personal satisfaction. With such an approach, each situation of value conflict can be converted into an opportunity for both personal and organizational growth. Though, the paper is directed at NARS, it is sufficiently general to be of relevance...
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...or dark and frightening? BACK TO TOP PLOT -- The plot is how the author arranges events to develop his basic idea; It is the sequence of events in a story or play. The plot is a planned, logical series of events having a beginning, middle, and end. The short story usually has one plot so it can be read in one sitting. There are five essential parts of plot: a) Introduction - The beginning of the story where the characters and the setting is revealed. b) Rising Action - This is where the events in the story become complicated and the conflict in the story is revealed (events between the introduction and climax). c) Climax - This is the highest point of interest and the turning point of the story. The reader wonders what will happen next; will the conflict be resolved or not? d) Falling action - The events and complications begin to resolve themselves. The reader knows what has happened next and if the conflict was resolved or not (events between climax and denouement). e) Denouement - This is the...
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...setting. a) place - geographical location. Where is the action of the story taking place? b) time - When is the story taking place? (historical period, time of day, year, etc) c) weather conditions - Is it rainy, sunny, stormy, etc? d) social conditions - What is the daily life of the characters like? Does the story contain local colour (writing that focuses on the speech, dress, mannerisms, customs, etc. of a particular place)? e) mood or atmosphere - What feeling is created at the beginning of the story? Is it bright and cheerful or dark and frightening? 3 CONFLICT-- Conflict is essential to plot. Without conflict there is no plot. There are two types of conflict: . 1) Internal – Man vs Himself -A struggle within one's self; a person must make some decision, overcome pain, quiet their temper, resist an urge, etc. 2 External conflict 1) Man vs. Man (physical) - The leading character struggles with his physical strength against other men, forces of nature, or animals. 2) Man vs...
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...are several scenes which contain violence and conflict. The play opens with violence due to the conflict between the two feuding families and it is this conflict that ultimately results in the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Examples Get help with your essay Read more about our Essay Writing Service > Looking for examples of OUR work? Click here to see our Essay Writing Examples > Want to know more about our services? Take a look at our Writing & Marking Service Index > Act III, scene 1 is a pivotal scene in Romeo and Juliet transforming the play from one of Romance into Tragedy. The scene opens on the streets of Verona and begins with talk of violence, ultimately leading to the deaths of two of the main characters in the play - Tybalt and Mercutio. Benvolio is eager to avoid a fight with the Capulets and he suggests to Mercutio that they should return home: ‘I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire/ The day is hot, the Capels are abroad’ this quote is foreshadowing the fight to come between Tybalt and Mercutio, whose death at Tybalt's hands sets the stage for Romeo's eventual undoing and the deaths of the two lovers.In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare presents Benvolio as a peaceful man and when he says, ‘these hot days is the mad blood stirring’ it shows us through Shakespeare’s use of personification that he is nervous and that it is certain a fight will break out. This scene shows us it is violence and conflict, not love, which is central to the action in...
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...still have many similarities. Both stories demonstrate that a person’s in this case the protagonist, can easily be engrossed in a dream or illusion, causing conflict which can lead to personal growth through dreams, conflicts and symbols. Firstly, dreams and illusions are used in both “Boys and Girls” and...
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...costs in the board rooms were susceptible to change. Managers in organizations are sometimes under pressure to suggest changes when they are newly appointed in an organization to prove their knowledge and expertise in an area and this is could sometimes be misused and changes are brought about only for the sake of change (Managing-change.net, 2013). One of the concerns of change is resistance which is natural and expected as it involves going from the known to unknown (Bovey and Hede, 2001a). Even though sometimes change is inevitable in an organization, the changes on the human element is sometimes ignored (Bovey and Hede, 2001b) which can be considered as the major source of resistance. Although the reason why people resist can be evident through analysis all potential sources of resistance cannot be comprehensively addressed (Self and Schraeder, 2009a) and the intensity of the resistance is unpredictable but the human element definitely factors in the success of the changes being implemented. Based on study by Self and Schraeder we can holistically look at three main sources of resistance identified by them which are personal factors, organizational factors and change-specific factors (Self...
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...Analysis There are a variety of tools that can be used to better understand ones’ core for leadership and power. Four of these tools are how good am I at building and leading teams, leadership style assessment, preferred conflict handling style, and preferred form of power assessment. Each of these assessments gave some insight into each team member’s leadership behaviors and practices, how his or her style correlates into traditional leadership models, and how these scores will help the overall functionality of a team environment. Leadership Style Melissa’s leadership style leans more towards concern for task (x= 16) over concern for people (y=7). Berlew (1974) states, “a leader or manager who is good at organizing to get work done and who relates well to his subordinates should have a highly productive group and satisfied workers” (p. 22). This supports that there has to be a balance between concern for task and concern for people. Melissa’s score for concern for people was average, being one point away from the high range [High>7, Low 10]. Even though her concern is more focused on task, she still has a concern for people that contributes to her successful leadership. These results conclude that Melissa’s tendencies will be for the accomplishment of the task, with less concern for what individuals have to go through for that task. She might tend to come across direct and focused; however, her underlying tone will be to help others to accomplish the task. Melissa has a combination...
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...self-managed work teams, cross-functional teams and virtual teams (Robbins & Judge, 2011). Regardless of which type of team we are working on some common factors are ensuring the team operates effectively, and having a certain level of trust is a good place to start. In regards to developing effective teams, Adam again referenced his military experience. He was put in charge of small groups as early as 19 years old in a combat environment and was expected to bring them together. He drew from the methods of his superiors and built cohesion through tough training and through leading by example. This can help develop teams and groups in the civilian business world as well. Leading by example is very important because it shows the subordinates that you are not asking them to do anything that you cannot do yourself, and that you practice the things that you preach. Some strategies that have been used to resolve conflict within those teams is to interview each side separately and...
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