Group Observation Paper

I work in a Transfer Center for a Level II Trauma Center and we recently acquired a new Director of Administration. Throughout the last year, the Director has made a point to change many processes, for worse or for better. The majority of her effort has been focused on how the office functions as a group or “team.” Two influential factors on how our group functions is the fact that the entire team is female in gender and group decision making. There is a particular instance where the team was gathered and was expected to participate in a meeting about streamlining processes in consultative phone calls. This meeting was held over 2 days, 4 hours each day, and was led by a contracted meeting leader. Good introductory paragraph helps follow the discussion
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“The common belief is that women are more emotional than men,” (Robbins & Judge, 2009). This particular meeting was extremely emotionally charged. Hindsight would say, although not totally accurate according to the hindsight bias (Robbins & Judge, 2009), the meeting was emotionally charged because of the participants being women. Women tend to be more emotionally expressive, hold onto emotions longer, and more frequently express said emotions, with the exception of anger (Robbins & Judge, 2009). One particular study expressed that female employees overall rated negative emotions and acts as more severe than men (Escartin, Salin, & Rodriguez-Carbelleira, 2011). After the meeting was over, we all returned to the office and more than one of my co-workers expressed that feelings were hurt, overlooked, or denied by the others in the group. This is a great example of how women hold onto emotion longer and verbally express that negative acts of others were perceived as severe. "Good use of reference, supports the