The Forgotten Group Member

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Part I: Group Development Identify and summarize the stages of group development Team development has been defined by the business dictionary as an enhancement of the effectiveness of work groups, by improving goal and role clarification as well as interpersonal processes. However, the development of teams is an ongoing process because the composition of team may undergo a continuous change. All teams are dynamic in nature than they take time to come together, to form, develop and grow. Having said this, team members pass through several stages for the development of the team and there has actually been a lot of research completed in order to identify such stages. The model studied in our textbook was developed by Dr. Bruce Tuckman in 1965 who published five stages of team development. Dr. Tuckman identified these stages as (1) forming, (2) storming, (3) norming, (4) performing and (5) adjourning. Let’s briefly examine what is done in each of these five stages before proceeding to analyzing the conflict As seen in figure 1.1, the forming stage constitutes a period of time in which group members become acquainted with each other. In addition, team members consider the contributions that they can make towards helping the team achieve its goal. Group roles are established as well as the types of behaviors that will be considered acceptable. In a way, this could be interpreted as setting clear the expectations that are to be met according to the role that is assigned to each team member. The second stage of this model is the storming stage. The storming stage is described as one that involves high emotionality as well as tension among its group members (Schermerhorn, 2012). Team members may begin to have disagreements in regards to the mission, vision or simply having different approaches towards specific situations or issues. This combined with the fact that the

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