Essays on Cohesiveness

Reflection

Question One Northouse (171) describes a constructive climate as an atmosphere, which contributes to the satisfaction of the group members as well as attainment of their individual best. An effective leader succeeds in establishing this type of climate. Creating a constructive climate calls for such a leader to promote standards of excellence, provide structure, build cohesiveness, and clarify norms (Northouse 171-172). On promoting standards of excellence, I am in the high range since I scored 23. On providing structure, I am also in the high range as my score was 24. I am also in the high range in ...

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Abstract

It is possible to sort out three major counter-productive actions that took place throughout the meeting (although there were much more). First of all, the meeting started with a formal recital of orders that were imposed on the task force, instead of democratically sharing the views of the new management on the possible review of policies with the selected professionals. Secondly, the topic of new uniform (or scrubs) turned into the public ostracism of the nurse due to her appearance, which is in fact an action punishable by law. The ad hominem accusations prevented the meeting from ...

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Substance abuse is one of the most harmful phenomena of a society. It can also be considered as substance-related disorder, and is related to abuse of drugs, tobacco, and/or alcohol that can lead to harmful outcomes. Estimates show that over 8 million children in the U.S. have one of the parents having substance-related disorder. Substance abuse can result in significant problems in a family as, for example; it can lead to separation of partners, problems in raising the children, employment problems, and severe levels of conflict in the society (Donohue et al., 2014). It has been ...

Reflective Essay on an Organizational Problem

Introduction In my summer job, I and my fellow group members faced some issues in completing the project assigned by the leader. My leader made a group of members, including me from different backgrounds to complete the project plan for new stadium. The leadership style of our leader was autocratic as he did not assign the responsibility to anyone to make decisions, but retain all authority by himself and made all key decisions related to project. In addition, he was not involved in the two-way communication to motivate the employees to achieve organizational goals. In turn, the issues occurred ...

The concept of team effectiveness is an important one in the management of an organization. It is because a collection of persons working together to achieve a common objective has been key pillar of social organization. Team effectiveness therefore refers to the degree of efficiency in which a collection of individuals can achieve set goals and objectives as determined by the team leader or organization. The extent of a team’s effectiveness is a factor of the level of interdependence among the various individuals that make up the team. It is therefore the case that team effectiveness is reliant ...

[Student Id] [Number] The case ‘Managing Dynamic’s New Melbourne Team’ is all about understanding team development, team roles, task interdependence, groups dynamics, team effectiveness, and potential issues among team members that may arise with the passage of time. The case exhibits an example of a London-based global media agency named Dynamic, which is operating across all the major geographical locations including Europe, United States, and Asia Pacific. While perpetually expanding to Asia Pacific regions such as Singapore, India, Japan, and Taiwan; it has now chosen Shanghai as its new corporate destiny. With the aim of Chinese expansion, the ...

Organizational problem: Lack of team cohesion

Introduction In an organization, team members share a common objective with the aim of completing a certain standard task for corporate benefit. Human beings need a sense of belonging and identity. Team cohesion refers to the extent in which the members of a team are willing to be involved in the continuity of group task in an organization. According to Robbins et al., (2014, p. 226), teams have been identified to differ in the level of their cohesiveness. Cohesion is the unifying factor of deputies to remain in a team and brings cooperation and efficiency in tackling the task ...

Introduction

Children raised in two-parent families have more advantages compared to their peers from divorced families. The family structure has changed such that almost half of the marriages end up in divorce. Children often develop emotional, behavioral and social problems due to the divorce cases. Most of these children also suffer from aggression and poor academic performance. It is obvious that children are the innocent victims of divorce. The question is; how can the well-being of children from divorced families be protected? The purpose of this research is to find ways through which children from divorced families can be assisted.

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Principles of Organisational Behaviour

Norms of Behaviour Norms are the effective conductors of social behavior. When an individual is going through the state of deindividuation, they perceive themselves merely in terms of group identity and therefore, their behavior is likely to be directed by the group norms (Nelson & Campbell, 2015)

Group Cohesion

Group cohesion or group cohesiveness is referred to the sum of all those factors that cause group members to stay within the group and make them feel attracted towards it. In other words, it works as a social glue, which binds up people together in a team. The cohesiveness among the team members ...

Team cohesiveness is influenced by many factors, which are determinants of cohesiveness. The most important factors in this regard are shared mission and goals, interaction, personal interaction to the group or team, organizational context, success of team, and competition. More interaction in the team is an indication of more cohesiveness. It can be seen from the case that team members faced difficulty in interacting with Brad Fitzgerald, and also there is miscommunication as Brad always remain busy on his phone. Further, when members of the team have shared mission and goals, and they agree on direction and purpose, then ...

TerraCop Case

Communication is one of the key tools in business and planning. If communication lacks between employees, departments, and partners business transactions will face a significant amount of challenges that can limit if not diminish the success of an organization. TerraCog has been in operation and business since 1977. From the time the organization, begin to the present there has been an immense amount of success in the fish and gaming industry because of the unique and usable products TerraCog has been an innovative and strong competitor that slowly introduces new products to underserved markets. One of the products that ...

As Sadcheva and colleagues (162) reasonably note, “the question of whether morality is an objective truth gleaned from nature or a socially constructed concept has been important in the philosophical study of ethics as well». In the editorial titled The Moral Instinct, Steven Pinker cultivates a rather controversial and ambiguous issue of human moral judgments, moral decisions/choices and moral dispositions. Thereby, the provocative nature of the author’s argument reveals itself as early as the introduction points to the blurred and seemingly inexplicable standards we evaluate the worth of particular prominent figures in terms of their compliance with moral ...

Ethics is moral principles that regulate the behavior of people or an organization, depicting how to behave towards other people and the consequences of misconduct. In engineering, ethics is the study of moral issues as well as decisions that face people and organizations working in engineering departments. The engineering profession in Ontario is under the regulation of Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) that directs what to be done and the consequences of negligence. The act determines what professional engineers are dictated to do in their profession, and its principle objective is to shield the public from incompetent, unqualified or unfit ...

Importance of listening

Listening is an active procedure that involves the focus on what is said. Furthermore, the listener must not allow other thoughts to permeate into the process. For this reason, proper listening requires a lot of focus and a strong ability to comprehend. It is only then that proper communication can occur between individuals or a group of people. Good communication enhances teamwork and reduces the chances of conflicts. Entrepreneurs and small business owners need to employ serious listening skills. Moreover, they need to foster the same ability to the other employees. When people within an organization can communicate properly, ...

Introduction

As many firms continue to expand into multinational corporations, they begin to understand that business environments have their differences. What may be essential and common in their home country could be a taboo in another region. Therefore, it is critical first to assess the political, social, legal, and economic factors of a promising market before establishing a branch in the area. This essay sheds light on the usefulness of assessing business environments by deriving ideas from several articles that indicate the diversity in legal processes in various regions. The litigation procedures are fundamental to a firm so that it ...

Personal Leadership Development Plan

STEP 1: MY GOALS I am an accounting major at college level. My pursuit of the course is due to my passion for numbers as I seek professional qualifications in accounting. Ultimately, after the completion of my degree, I would want to operate at the most senior positions of financial organizations as I seek to impart my knowledge into the business and help in managing people. However before I attain the ultimate goal, there one major hurdle that I would like to go over- Internship at a big four firm. I believe that training at the highest level will ...

Defensiveness in communication hinders positive group climate and is an obstacle to group cohesiveness. The previously existing norms within the group were friendly, casual and honest interactions. Decisions were made through open debates in which all members participated by asking and answering questions, and although a consensus was not always achievable, open discussions were welcomed. The group meetings were previously held with an open, flexible, and casual structure that was not strict on punctuality or formalities. The group norms in the case study were violated when George and Margaret used formal and rigid communication structures within the group. Their ...