Thursday, October 16, 2008
Week 8 -Team Participation
I agree with the facts presented by the text book about the unions and how the employee is become more self involved now. Well for participation i would like to give an example of class projects. In almost all the group projects that i have done, i have not seen the same amount of participation among all the team members. In one of my group projects we are four in a team but just two of us are serious about our project and do the assigned job on time and present it. I there has to be way to monitor "employee participation" or "team participation" and i believe this can be done by asking each member of the group about the job that his/her team member has done. I think this would force all the team members to actually give equal amount of participation and also view what his/her group member is working on.
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Other students in the class have mentioned the issue of group projects as well. I rarely require group projects in any classes anymore (except when I'm teaching small group communication) because of the problems you discussed. Unlike organizations, where group members have a history and probably a future, student groups typically have little history and there's only a remote chance they'll have to work together again. So commitment to each other is low, many students have individual goals that are entirely separate from the group's goals, and they know others will pick up the slack. So I usually make team/group work optional. In addition, if students haven't had any training in working in small groups, they won't have the skills they need to be successful. Instead of gaining all the great things they should get out of working a group, students often have rotten experiences and learn to dislike (or hate) group work.
Whenever I encounter a group that is unwilling to split the work evenly, I find that it helps to sit down and discuss it. Everyone should express what their goals are for the project, what their expectations are, and how much they are willing to contribute. In your example of the 2 members that are trying to present the best and the other 2 are just putting in the bare minimum or mediocre range, they might want to remind the 2 that are contributing less that their pee evaluations will reflect the quality and quantity or work they put in the group. I find that this usually is rather effective because the members realize that they are not just getting a free ride to an A grade.
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