III. Decision-making Style During our classes, the professor did an excellent job supplementing the class with some material that was not necessary in our reading material, and one of these material was helping the class to understand our own culture and sub-culture. In the case of this student, understanding that my culture consisted of being a Christian, Brazilian, and a male help me to understand my decision-making style. And when a group of people meet to work together, their personal culture will come to light, and at times it will crash with other 's members cultures and traditions, and that is when conflicts occur. In our syllabus, TIU has an article that warns us that “whenever people draw close to one another, conflict is inevitable.” and that “people can actually be doing others a disservice by avoiding conflict”(TIU, 2012. p.32) so there was conflicts while the class tried to make decisions, but I believe most of the decisions that were taken was based on consensus, which is
…show more content…
Through the last several weeks, we were challenged to work together as one, to demonstrated what it is to live a Christian life in a group setting, and although the class did not fully master this ability, we did improved as the weeks went by. My conclusion is that working in groups can be challenging, but the rewards are immeasurable, we learned how to work in groups to accomplished activities, we learned the importance of the various task and maintenance roles, the need of having the proper leaders who can exercise their leadership style. We also looked at the need for having different decision making styles in the group, and how that can benefit the whole group, and I was able to explain my personal progress during the past
Through the last several weeks, we were challenged to work together as one, to demonstrated what it is to live a Christian life in a group setting, and although the class did not fully master this ability, we did improved as the weeks went by. My conclusion is that working in groups can be challenging, but the rewards are immeasurable, we learned how to work in groups to accomplished activities, we learned the importance of the various task and maintenance roles, the need of having the proper leaders who can exercise their leadership style. We also looked at the need for having different decision making styles in the group, and how that can benefit the whole group, and I was able to explain my personal progress during the past