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Team Experience
On a past job a team had to be put together because at the job site we did a boring test for the dirt. The dirt came back as contaminated with asbestos at 1%. After we found this out, the city and the company had to get teams of 3-6 people to meet and determine who was going to pay to have the contaminated dirt removed. After months of communication, meetings, and back and forth it was decided that the city would have to pay for the removal. The final outcome was that I was on the job removing the contaminated dirt from the site from 4pm to 1230am, signing clip boards, and directing the trucks. It was a pretty big job that took 3 days and required 15-20 trucks and 15-20 workers. During these long work hours I received a lot of overtime pay. Overall, it was a great outcome that the city had to pay for the removal job. Of course, the city was not too happy with the result but it worked out well for our company. It was a good experience for our team as well because we were paid well for our time, we worked very well together, there was plenty of overtime, and at the end we were a closer and more efficient team.
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One of the worst teams I ended up on was for a construction crew. We had just finished up a remodel and had two roofing jobs that started the following week. The boss split us up and gave us the address. My team had 4 people that had been working together for about 6 months so we had established norms, knew how each other worked and occasionally hang out after work. The task at hand was to strip the roof and put up new shingles like we’ve done in the past. The job started out fine it was beginning of winter so it was cold but manageable. The problem started when we stripped the roof and the plywood was rotted and had to be replaced. Which led to longer hours in the cold which made people cranky. This was also a “self-managing work group we didn’t have an appointed supervisor” (Hitt 287) on site. Team members started taking more, longer breaks, and tried leaving early. It was suggested to tarp the roof and continue the next day. Which is a “process conflict differenced of opinion about the procedures a group should use to achieve its goals.”(Hitt 291) While others wanted to continue and finish what they had started out to do that day. The job ended up taking days longer the boss was not happy which meant everyone was not happy. It was a long cold miserable job.
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In high school I got a summer job with the City Of Boston. We emptied trash barrels in parks and city areas into the back of a truck. One day while working with a guy I had been teamed up with that day, we drove into Roslindale Square. He picked up the trash barell and I started to bend to pick up a small piece of trash on the sidewalk next to the barell. I forget, but it might have been an empty can. ” Hey” he yelled ” We don”t pick up anything on the ground.” This violated all the rules about work my father had taught us. ” Always do more than what is the minimum ” my dad told us. This lesson taught me to see that not all people have the same work standards as my father. On page 295 in chapter tens summary, the goals of an organization, is listed as being on the three major factors that influence the formation of groups. In my example I was young and eager to do a little more and my team member was looking to do the minimum or just what was required. We had different goals. Overall I thought chapter ten listed so many ways in which teams succeed or fail.
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School Projects can be a daunting task for the average 14-week course. The accelerated 7 week programs have a much tighter schedule and it can often be hard to keep track of all the fast, up coming deadlines, much less meet them. Compounded to that, many classmates are working professionals who are already hard pressed to find time to dedicate to school, group projects in the online environment provide a unique set of challenges.
Our formal group began at week 1 with random group assignments by the professor. Classmates were broken down into groups of 4 or 5 and were assigned to choose a firm and examine it through various pre-designated aspects over the course of 7 weeks. Each member of the group was to be assigned a different area of the firm to examine and at the end of the 7 weeks, group members would combine each of their papers into a large group case study. Team members were also assigned to provide weekly updates and status reports, along with proofs and drafts to go along with the project at hand.
The group developed through many of the normal and expected stages of development. “Forming” was done for us by the professor, “Storming” or finding different areas of opinion and “norming”, building consensus as a group (Hitt.276) were done through weekly phone conferences. These areas seemed a more social realm and were easily established, but the final phase of “performing”, is where this team fell short.
Each member volunteered for what part of the assignment they would research although no one openly volunteered to be team leader. I openly volunteered to edit works before final submittal. As the weeks wore on, work from certain team members became fluid and inconsistent. During the final week, as papers were being merged together, 2 of 4 team members came up with less the adequate papers and the part that was more frustrating, no sources for their information.
Being the editor gave a bit of official power to say that certain parts needed to be reviewed and edited, and also allowed me to express my needs clearly. The problem was, most of the work up till then had been done under pressure, with the hopes of catching up at a later date. But because 7 week programs have a tendency to fly by, there was never a time to. Leaving a heavy burden of scrambling at the last minute to provide a solid paper, that all group members can benefit from, was a hard task to accomplish.
I believe that all members of the team struggled for two reasons. The first reason was lack of communication. It was very clear what roles each member of the team had, and finding time for everyone to take on a conference call or group text became a bit of a chore. Though the calls tended to be brief. Which lead to the second problem, lack of a norm for the group. The looseness of the group, and the infrequency of occasional check ins, made it hard for members of the group to stay in touch. Furthermore, it made it even harder to stick to a single plan of attack on what was a multi faceted project. “It is almost impossible for a group to function without nor
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