Valena Scientific Cooperation

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Valena Scientific Corporation (VSC) is a large manufacturer that specializes in healthcare products. After the industrial movement to genetic engineering many companies have been created. These companies were staffed with university microbiologist to exploit the commercial potential for gene splicing. So the senior of VSC decided to establish a Biotech Research Program and the program were staffed with nine scientists. Each one of the nine scientists was specialized in a particular field and they have been assigned in different groups. Three of them in gene splicing, the other three in recombination, and the remaining three in fermentation. They were supposed to work as a self- managed team and they were provided with twenty technicians in order to help them. In each group, informal leaders emerged among the scientists and they monitor the work of each group. After three years, a project that develops leucocyte interferon as treatment against cancer was given to the Biotech Research Program. And after a specific period of time the group leaders met for the first time to exchange information and discoveries made by each group but each group has taken a different path and the meeting was concluded without compromise of original positions. Because of that a former leader was assigned to the program. Each group member had to discuss his/her work with him. In addition, subgroups were formed to set a specific vision and a new approach was established by setting research instructions within the overall research plan. The groups had to meet face-to-face, discus the results and report problems to each other to save the effort. Questions: 1. Was the research program a group or a team? What about each subgroup? If a team, what type of team was it (functional, cross-functional, self-directed) Explain. At first it was a self-directed team that consists of three groups

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