Individuals who can look within themselves and examine their interpersonal behavior and reactions for possible answers to their presenting issues may well be suited for group work. Yalom believes that underlying personal concerns such as anxiety, insomnia or depression, to name a few, may be related to the lack of gratification or a sense of intimacy with and from others. Therefore,…
A class divided is a documentary that was filmed in 1968 by frontline about Jane Elliott an elementary school teacher and how she proposes an experiment to her students to help them understand what discrimination means in society. Jane Elliott begins the experiment by asking her class about National Brotherhood week, and what it means and how there are people in american who aren 't treated like brothers, the students respond to her question by saying that blacks and indian americans are not treated as brothers by everyone else. She goes on by suggesting that over a two day period, the class will be split into blue-eyed and brown-eyed students and that on the first day of the experiment, the blue-eyed people are better than the brown-eyed people.…
People will do anything to win an argument. Ripping apart an argument trying to make the other person feel bad will cause tempers to flare. In her article “The Triumph of the Yell” written by Deborah Tannen, she talked about how almost everything is being argued and she is blaming journalists and politicians for feeding the flame of public arguments. In the article, Tannen talked a lot about a “culture of critique”.…
The Breakfast Club Saturday Detention group was observed through viewing the movie The Breakfast Club. The group was confined to the school library together for about eight hours. After realizing there is not an alternative to interacting with each other, members form a cohesive group focusing on similarities. The Breakfast Club is a classic and depicts many facets of group therapy in a short period of time, which made it a good choice for observation. Group Composition and Diversity Group Type…
In high school, we were constantly being told that we could not work in groups because we would get too loud. In university group work was encouraged so that our professors wouldn't have to do as much marking. During my observations at my CSL there was a lot of group work. Comparing when the students were working on group work to their individual work, the results were polar opposites. The tasks for students was to write down what they knew about 5 sided figures.…
For me the activity of working as a group especially with other individuals who I have not worked with or talked to before was a good learning experience that had both positive and negative outcomes using Driscoll’s model of reflection as a frame work to elaborate on how I interpreted what happened, what impact the situation had on me and what I will do in the future if presented with a similar situation (Driscoll and Teh, 2001). We were required to do a 10 minute presentation for a health promotion project that we developed. I decided to work with other individuals who I didn’t know and have not worked with before as I believed I would be more productive and respectful if I worked with people I didn’t know very well. For the first tutorial…
Rebel Women (1910) is a compilation of short stories about different situations that suffragettes went through, providing the feminist point of view of the author in regards of society; a second edition of this book was published in 1915. The depiction of suffragettes from the inside and her personal point of view were key elements that Evelyn Sharp used to express her view about the general situation of women’s suffrage. I considered for this analysis some short stories that, in my opinion, depict the situation of suffragettes in terms of politics, law and social context: “The Woman at the Gate” “The prison while the sun shines” and “The black spot of constituency”. “The Woman at the Gate” is a short story in which we are presented a peaceful manifestation in front of the Gates of Saint Stephens’ House. In this story it can be appreciated the opinion of men about…
Introduction In this week’s reading assignment, Ott, Parkes, and Simpson (2008) introduces an assemblage of seven different readings from various theorists on the studies performed on groups and teams. The reading provides an understanding of how organizations can employ the expertise and originality of individuals into functioning efforts of groups. Also, three topic points, such as diversity, self-directed work teams, and virtual teams, offers additional interests in groups and teams that have taken center stage in literature during the 1990s and 2000s. Critical Analysis of Literature Reviewed Upon analyzing the reading literature, the common theme of the seven articles affords an understanding of positive human behavior, along with…
For this paper, I will be forming an in-depth analysis of Adrienne Marie Brown’s “Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds” based on her critique, vision, and strategy. The main argument that I will present in my paper is bringing the concept of emergent strategy as means of a way for all of us from different backgrounds, identities, and beliefs to become creators of our future together. It is through relationship-building between individuals and communities to find a common ground strategy and make changes at times of emergence. She claims that the short-term strategies that are currently being implemented by some social justice movements are ineffective and that we need to shift that focus to developing long-term strategies through…
Furthermore, it results in team work and improved morale as the workers are grouped in smaller areas and communication and social contact are encouraged. • More open work areas…
In every group, structured or not, the group process has many effects on the overall group. This paper will look at the group processes of our cohort, the interactions between subgroups, and the way that it has affected the overall distance learning cohort. It will look at themes which have played out during our most recent trip to campus, namely subgroups formed, as well as the difference in anxiety levels between the foundation and concentration groups and the behaviors that were demonstrated. Next it will identify and discuss instances of here-and-now moments within the groups and consider the process commentary that we saw emerge and reflect on possible meanings for it. Finally it will depict how the groups illustrated the concepts of…
Being unique is something important but also fitting into a group may help a lot with many things. For example, creating a business by your own could be perfect, but by fitting into a group and helping each other with different kind of thoughts and ideas will get your business more than great with a lot of different ideas that will help the business. A lot of people think being unique is more important than fitting into a group. Therefore, in my opinion I see that fitting into a group will give you more ideas and help you work fast and let you communicate with people more, that’s why it is more important. One main reason for this argument is that fitting into a group will give you more ideas.…
This leads to the reduction of group work’s output as well as productivity. More so, individual indistinctness or anonymity also increases as the group size increases. Jones (as cited in Liden, Wayne, Jaworski, and Bennett, 2004) claimed that assessment of each individual’s contribution is difficult due to increase in anonymity, thus leading to reduction of average individual’s effort. In relation with that, difficulty in encouraging and monitoring individuals takes place as the group size increases which also contribute to social loafing (Liden, Wayne, Jaworski, and Bennett,…
Individual Reflection Paper As humans, it is within our inborn nature to interact and cooperate with others. This is due to the fact that no one individual is perfect and capable in all ways. We are able to complement each other’s inadequacy through working as a group, hence this is why collective efforts often made things easier as compared to individual effort. While working in groups, we will experience changes in group dynamics and processes.…
INTRODUCTION Group is a collection of people who share definable membership, group consciousness, a sense of shared purpose, interdependence and interaction. (Mullins, 2005) According to Robin and Judge (2013), defined group as two or more individual interacting and interdependent who have come together to achieve a common set of goals. Mullins (2013), explains two types of groups which are formal and informal groups. Formal groups are deliberately planned and created by management as part of the formal organisation structure.…