Introduction – Groups versus Teams
Group processes and team functions play important roles within a unit, similarly providing ways individuals can communicate with one another to achieve a common goal and support group cohesion. When a group is disorganized, there is not adequate transferring of information, thus, the group is unable to make important decisions and cannot be effective (Engleberg & Wynn, 2013). Likewise, team function relies on interacting and coordinating with one another in order to make decisions (Kalisch, B.J., Weaver, S.J., & Salas, E., 2009). Wengrzyn differentiates, “a group is a number of individuals forming a unit for a reason or cause, and a team is a collection of accomplished people coming together for a common goal …show more content…
Lastly, teams appear to be more formal in which the leader facilitates a decision with a focused goal and objective. Groups, however, work more independently and there is one leader who controls the groups’ decision-making. Regardless of how well a group or team works together, each member has different ideas, personalities, beliefs and motivations to contribute to the overall production of a decision at hand (Wengrzyn, n.d). The purpose of this paper is to analyze the many ways in which groups and teams address the challenge of making a decision in a clinical setting. Using communication, an effective method and the unique decision making style of each individual, this challenge can be overcome, contributing to the clinical effectiveness of …show more content…
Using an effective method to make a decision can predict the quality and how fast the decision is made. The different ways a group can come to decision include decision making by authority, voting or by consensus (Engleberg & Wynn, 2013). A group or team can let a specific person come up with an answer, let majority win, or come up with a decision that everyone agrees with. If the team or group is too large for everyone to have an opinion, or if there are time constraints, voting is the most effective. A consensus decision allows for a collective agreement that will help the group or team achieve its common goal. Lastly, a group can make a decision based on what the authority decides (Engleberg & Wynn, 2013). These methods can be chosen by looking at how the group or team functions. Balance when using a specific method is important; if members end up disliking or mistrusting one another as a result of the decision made at hand, the group is not balanced. Whatever the final decision is, however, group and team members are obligated to accept and implement the collective plan, no matter what they think about it or how the decision was concluded (Engleberg & Wynn,
Group processes and team functions play important roles within a unit, similarly providing ways individuals can communicate with one another to achieve a common goal and support group cohesion. When a group is disorganized, there is not adequate transferring of information, thus, the group is unable to make important decisions and cannot be effective (Engleberg & Wynn, 2013). Likewise, team function relies on interacting and coordinating with one another in order to make decisions (Kalisch, B.J., Weaver, S.J., & Salas, E., 2009). Wengrzyn differentiates, “a group is a number of individuals forming a unit for a reason or cause, and a team is a collection of accomplished people coming together for a common goal …show more content…
Lastly, teams appear to be more formal in which the leader facilitates a decision with a focused goal and objective. Groups, however, work more independently and there is one leader who controls the groups’ decision-making. Regardless of how well a group or team works together, each member has different ideas, personalities, beliefs and motivations to contribute to the overall production of a decision at hand (Wengrzyn, n.d). The purpose of this paper is to analyze the many ways in which groups and teams address the challenge of making a decision in a clinical setting. Using communication, an effective method and the unique decision making style of each individual, this challenge can be overcome, contributing to the clinical effectiveness of …show more content…
Using an effective method to make a decision can predict the quality and how fast the decision is made. The different ways a group can come to decision include decision making by authority, voting or by consensus (Engleberg & Wynn, 2013). A group or team can let a specific person come up with an answer, let majority win, or come up with a decision that everyone agrees with. If the team or group is too large for everyone to have an opinion, or if there are time constraints, voting is the most effective. A consensus decision allows for a collective agreement that will help the group or team achieve its common goal. Lastly, a group can make a decision based on what the authority decides (Engleberg & Wynn, 2013). These methods can be chosen by looking at how the group or team functions. Balance when using a specific method is important; if members end up disliking or mistrusting one another as a result of the decision made at hand, the group is not balanced. Whatever the final decision is, however, group and team members are obligated to accept and implement the collective plan, no matter what they think about it or how the decision was concluded (Engleberg & Wynn,