Functional groups

instructor will then summarize all team results, explain the rationale behind the team formation, and facilitate a discussion and learning points from the exercise in the course threaded discussion area. I will also provide you with the results of the Groups Styles Inventory. Suggested Milestones for the Survival…

China’s ethnic composition is much homogeneous with 91.9% of population being Han peoples, other ethnicities are Hui, Mongols, Zhuang, Miao, Tibetans and Uyghurs. Some ethnic groups are more distinguishable due to physical appearances and relatively low intermarriage rates. They have intermarried with Han Chinese, and have similar appearances. They are less distinguishable from Han people, especially a growing number of ethnic minorities are fluent at a native level in Mandarin Chinese. In…

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Week 2 Application Assignment: Group Dynamics and Group Stages In 1965, Bruce Tuckman developed one of the most influential models of “the developmental stages in a small group” (Bonebright, 2010, p. 111). It is a four stage model in which each stage needed to be completed in order to reach optimum group functioning. These stages were dubbed “forming”, “storming”, “norming”, “performing”. Later in 1977, he and Mary Ann Conover Jensen added “adjourning” as a fifth stage in his model (Bonebright…

that the Inner Ring can be good and bad. The Inner Ring is what people strive for. They want to be inside so they are not outside, but once inside they are still not happy. Friendship is the key to any Inner Ring. Without friendship people are just a group wanting the same thing with no relationship with one another. I agree with Lewis on his account of the Inner Ring because I think that while we want to be inside, it will not get us anywhere better in life. Lewis talked about how once you get…

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The interviews were then audiotaped and transcribed verbatim. After each interview or focus group the research team analyzed the data and subsequent questions were developed. Data analysis progressed through three specific phases including: axial coding, open coding, and selective coding. Throughout the entire analysis process, conceptual diagrams…

The Asian’s have good health in general, whereas the African American have more health issues. The Hispanic groups have a greater rate of diabetes compared to African American people. The Asian culture compared to the African Americans or Hispanics have a poverty rate that is closer to the rate of whites. Provide a brief description of the three models of successful…

addresses those impediments that can prevent a group of people from working effectively and efficiently together towards a goal. My experience as a member of a Cornerstone formation team last year exemplifies how those obstacles make team work almost impossible and definitely unpleasant. I will summarize that experience and evaluate it in terms of the five dysfunctions explained in the book, ending with my assessment and recommendation on how our group could have overcome the dysfunctions we…

This design was perfect for this study because the effect of different treatments were being tested on different groups. There were advantages and disadvantages to this experimental design. One of the main disadvantages was that there were certain differences among the participants and groups. Genetic differences and different lifestyles could exist among participants. Also, the different factors that caused MDD in the participants could also have an…