Essays on Group Work

One of the relevant observations noted from the readings is the disparity within which groups and group work are developed. From the first chapter written by Toseland & Rivas (2012), group work development was noted to undergo six (6) stages from planning, beginning, assessment, middle, evaluation, ending. However, from the book written by Toseland, Jones, & Gelles, Group dynamics (2004), the more popular group development process was revealed to have been conceptualized by Tuckman as the forming, storming, norming, and performing stages. While in the same book, another group development model was noted to have been popularized by Garland, Jones, and ...

Reflection on Group Work

Reflection on Group Work

The report is a reflection of my group work and its experience. I have experienced different aspects of group work throughout the course while working with inter-professional group members. I have a positive experience of teamwork and it enhanced my skills and knowledge. I have perceived the importance of teamwork in achieving the objectives. I have understood that equal contribution of all members is required to perform any task. The group work and teams can solve different problems and concerns in society and work places. The ability to work effectively in teams plays an important ...

Introduction

Working in a group requires effective collaboration and teamwork. It is common that every member’s group may have his or her own idea that can help the group in achieving a specific goal. However, not all members may be I favor of an individual idea, from which a conflict between the members themselves may arise. Relatively, the group’s collaboration and effective teamwork can be achieved in various ways. Moreover, different ideas that influence the development of conflict within the group can be addressed though conflict resolution, such as effective problem-solving and decision-making skills. In this study, we ...

Reflection on group work project – Anger management skills

[Institution’s Name] Reflection on group work project – Anger management skills

Introduction

Group project exercise was an activity that every class member had to perform being a part of some group based on a particular cause or topic. It was aimed at enabling students to work as a team, experience certain roles as a member and learn how to plan, develop and engage a group including its dynamics. A part from being a group participant, every student also got a chance to learn something from all the other groups as the member of the class. Group topics included weight loss, ...

In management, there are so many activities done to ensure that various activities are a success within the shortest time possible, as well as by using the minimum resources for maximum production. There are many personnel that ensure everything is done the right way, and in that case, there is a need to work in groups. Group work ensures that employees and employer work in collaboration toward the same objective (Healy & Meagher, 2004). In most cases, group work ensures execution of work more perfectly and faster. The most common types of groups in workplace are formal and informal groups. ...

Application of Management Skills

The purpose of this exercise is to build a comprehensive plan for the development of the leadership capability in myself. Based on the understanding of the underlining principles of management, it is evident that leadership is the key skill, which I would like to develop and further work on to be able to complement and complete my profile as a current leader of self and a future leader of others. With that in mind, the following aspects of the leadership competence are central to my development model:

Personal and unique life story

Diversity awareness and management skills Continuous learning. First of all, personal and ...

Ideally, an organization is a set of people who work together to achieve certain goals. There are many ways to get the organization functioning and make use of various management control measures to achieve the desired goals. Reward system is one such management control method which means to pay rewards or incentives to employees based on their performance. Although reward systems are introduced to serve multiple aims, the main aim however is to motivate and encourage the employees to perform better and beyond expectations. These rewards have to be externally competitive and must be in proportion to the market ...

BUSINESS PLAN FOR UNIVERSITY GROUPWORK COHESION (UGC)

Business Plan for University Groupwork Cohesion (UGC) Executive Summary The aim of this project is to design, develop, and market a mobile application for assisting students in their productivity especially when placed in groupings of several modules. Group works are considered one of the most hectic assignments that students are required to perform. However, as most of the students point out it is not the actual assignments that are hard but the interactions, planning and delivery of the work across several students. This project, therefore, aims to provide a simple and efficient means of handling such issues among students ...

Many energy companies begin from a humble background of marketing their products without any plan for further development. However, to reach a certain point in growth, they must embrace branding proactively. Overlooking this important step towards marketing would result in stagnation in growth. Ovo Energy is an energy supplying company through buying and selling electricity and gas to domestic properties (Bessant and Tidd 429). Creating the right image of the Ovo Energy through branding will be so fundamental in generating a market in Cairo. Branding must, therefore, satisfy the following characteristics: innovative, customer loyalty, quality products, and good design ...

Divorce cannot but influence children on the part of their psychological and thus physical state. It has harmful effects on young children, as well as on adolescents. These effects the person feels the whole life. However, there are short-time and long-time effects of parental divorce. This paper is a literature review, which observes some articles concerning the divorce effects on children.

Becoming Stronger at Broken Places

The article Becoming Stronger at Broken Places: A Model for Group Work with Young Adults from Divorced Families written by Sally M. Hage and Mia Nosanow particularly deals with long-term effects that divorce have on children. These effects ...

In regard to the tool chosen, the Peer Outcomes Protocol which is also known as the POP will be used. In this regard, Campbell et al. (2015) believes that POP should be designed as a Recovery Subscale in the Well-Being Module. This subscale will be used to assess impact of using group working as a learning strategy on the level of students’ participation and performance/achievement. The tool will comprise of 13 distinct components which will need responses on a scale ranging from one to four. While responding to the questions, the students will be needed to circle the actual ...

Advanced organization behaviour

Organizational behavior involves the study of human behavior in institutional settings. It forms an interface between the behavior of people within the organization and the organization itself (Locke, 2009). There are three levels of organization behavior. The first type is the micro level. This level involves individuals. Furthermore, it focuses on how the individuals interact with each other at the personal level. Various people portray varied kinds of body language toward one another. This trait can be visible from the way people talk to one another or make facial expressions. The second type of behavior occurs at the meso-level. ...

Methods

Quantitative methodology will be used in this work, - for this is one of the best ways to conduct such social experiments. Quantitative studies involve the conducting of various surveys based on the use of structured closed-ended questions that are answered by a large number of respondents. The main objective of quantitative research is to obtain numerical evaluation of market condition or reactions of the respondents on some event. For this experiment to be carried out, 60 fourth grade students from Skyland Elementary School at the beginning of the 2016 school year will be taken.

Description of the research design

The necessity of group ...

Group work project

Q. 1)

Group discussions are essential in any school setup since it aids students to grasp the content better. My participation in group work made me understand so many things about post-meningitic hearing loss management. Although I had read and done a lot of research in this field, I still did not have the full facts about this condition. One aspect, which I fully grasped during the group work, was the nature and causes of this condition. Although I had some idea on the possible causes and symptoms of the condition, I understood these aspects better because the group members ...

Section 1: Personal assessment.

Learning style: I am comfortable learning as an individual or in a group. My learning style is quite flexible, often ranging from personal learning, group discussions, study groups, to research peer groups. I believe that with research, human beings can tackle almost any problem in their day-to-day activities. I therefore emphasize more on research work, be it in the field, library research or internet based research.

Personal skills assessment: the diploma course I took at Southampton University has given me significant skills both in academics and in the field. The English language diploma that I took was necessary to enhance ...