Negative Team Behavior

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Name: College: Course: Tutor: Date: Negative Team Behavior As a matter of practice, each team is expected to form code of conduct that comprises of a set of unacceptable and acceptable behaviors of members. In this paper, we will be looking at negative team behavior or the unacceptable behavior. These negative team behaviors are true manifestations of conducts and traits that are of no benefit to the rest of the team. In fact, team members who show these negative behaviors may be a stabling block to the effectiveness and growth of the team (Hellriegel & John 37). Particularly, we will be focusing on the characteristics of people who exhibit negative team behaviors. I will also give an example of my experience with a team where one of the members exhibited these behaviors and how it affected the team. Negative team behavior is exhibited by team members who continuously put down other people’s suggestions and ideas. For instance, they aggress, criticize, and insult others. They waste the time of the group with redundant recounting of irrelevant subjects or individual achievements. The joker of the team distracts the rest of the group by telling too much jokes, troublesome antics, and improper comments. Other team members who bother are those that withdraw and decline to be pulled out (Williams 53). Such members don’t have anything to say concerning the considered ideas. Also, negative team behavior can be the dominating attitude or the superiority complex. In this case, a team member who shows this behavior usually manipulates other members of the team, say, by being authoritative or insisting more on individual opinions. Also, members who have negative team behaviors show lack of interest and in extreme cases don’t participate in team building. As a result, enhancement of teamwork is hindered. I remember a class team we had formed to work on
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