The Group As A System Essay

III. The Group as a System Systems Theory showed how each individual contributed and formed relationships within the group. We were a bunch of interconnected parts working together to form a whole. We each came from different backgrounds, different life experiences and personalities and this theory looks at how we all came together to be “Team Delta”. There are a few elements of a system that I will be hitting on as they pertain to our group, specifically: openness to environment, output variables, and synergy. Openness to environment showed how we had to operation by communicating and meeting up with each other. We had to meet up because of the athletes on the team, all the work could not be done remotely. The first two tasks involved us meeting to complete tasks for a specified amount of time. Task 1 was hard because that was right when both Clint and Jackson were heavily in their season with workouts and practices. We struggled a lot when trying to figure out a meeting time. This struggle of finding time in our schedules to meet plagued us all semester. We were very susceptible to outside influences and changes in the guy’s schedules. Sometimes Clint would have a workout change its time or Jackson would have to Qualify late when we were supposed to meet earlier. Everyone stayed as flexible as they could, but It definitely was one of those strains that wasn’t anyone’s fault. Externally, we knew that scheduling would be a problem that we would have to work around. We…