Case Description

This is the experience I met, and the following names are fictitious. When I was in one business class last year, there was a group project and was counted thirty percent in total grades. For the group project, each group needed to hand in one essay which contained introduction, content, summary, and gave a fifteen minutes long presentation in front of the class. I signed group number four which my presentation was four weeks after, so I could have enough time to prepare. The group project was five people in a group, and I was in a totally new group that we did not know each other in the group. Our group was very diverse, there were two from Asia (included me), one from Africa, another one from Europe, and the last one is from Canada. I was very excited about the group diversity because we can have many ideas for the project. We gave our contact E-mail to John, who is from Canada. He was willing to be the contact person in this group. This group seemed to be very productive at the beginning, because we had assigned all the work to everyone in the group and set the time for next meeting. In fact, the other person from Asia, Allen, he organized how we can do in this project. We all discussed which part in the project we were interested in, so everyone can do their own preference. We aimed our goal to get above eighty percent in this project, which was a huge challenge for us. And, the professor in this class expected higher quality of performance from students than other professors I have met. However, there were some problems and conflicts occurred in the group. When next meeting, some people did the same work, and one person did not even finish his work. I was so nervous although we still had three weeks to perform. The professor asked for the report one week before our presentation. Basically, we just need to write down what were we going to