Hunter Rivait
Comm 3220
Case Study 1 Technology’s impact on society continues to grow every year. The latest and greatest new gadgets allow us to communicate at speeds unlike the human race has ever seen. One could be across the world, and you could live video chat with that person in real time. That is something once seen in fiction cartoons that people believed would never be true. With that, it would seem there are no negative repercussions and that everyone would be much more communicative than before. Well, time and time again, that proves itself to be untrue. In this case study, for example, Kyle was slacking on his role in the group and the members could not reach him. When asked about it, an excuse is given about deleted messages …show more content…
The excuses he made about the communication problems could have been true; however, if all of the meetings took place in the conference room then this problem may have never occurred. People are unpredictable sometimes, so the group did what they had to do and covered Kyle’s missing pieces. This is the upside of having a good group and using the various communication methods. The downside, being that Kyle was unreliable even with many means of communication. Again, this could have been because of the virtual team environment, but there is not enough information to prove so. However, the fact that he gave the classic, “my dog ate my homework” type of excuse leads me to believe that he procrastinated and let the team down. Also, him not having to meet with them until very close to the due date could have very well eased his choice to procrastinate. If I were in charge, and everyone’s schedule correlated, then all of our meetings would be scheduled in a conference room setting. This would leave less to chance, and allow all of us to hold each other accountable. Emotions, as mentioned earlier, would be more present if meeting face-to-face consistently. Each time the group met, I believe it would be less likely each time for one of the members to slack on their
Comm 3220
Case Study 1 Technology’s impact on society continues to grow every year. The latest and greatest new gadgets allow us to communicate at speeds unlike the human race has ever seen. One could be across the world, and you could live video chat with that person in real time. That is something once seen in fiction cartoons that people believed would never be true. With that, it would seem there are no negative repercussions and that everyone would be much more communicative than before. Well, time and time again, that proves itself to be untrue. In this case study, for example, Kyle was slacking on his role in the group and the members could not reach him. When asked about it, an excuse is given about deleted messages …show more content…
The excuses he made about the communication problems could have been true; however, if all of the meetings took place in the conference room then this problem may have never occurred. People are unpredictable sometimes, so the group did what they had to do and covered Kyle’s missing pieces. This is the upside of having a good group and using the various communication methods. The downside, being that Kyle was unreliable even with many means of communication. Again, this could have been because of the virtual team environment, but there is not enough information to prove so. However, the fact that he gave the classic, “my dog ate my homework” type of excuse leads me to believe that he procrastinated and let the team down. Also, him not having to meet with them until very close to the due date could have very well eased his choice to procrastinate. If I were in charge, and everyone’s schedule correlated, then all of our meetings would be scheduled in a conference room setting. This would leave less to chance, and allow all of us to hold each other accountable. Emotions, as mentioned earlier, would be more present if meeting face-to-face consistently. Each time the group met, I believe it would be less likely each time for one of the members to slack on their