week 8 - Differences among Teams

I agree with the text book when it says that every team is unique on the basis of its situations. I even agree with the process consultation, I think i should employ it in my project team as well.The process consultation says that there should be one team member who acts as a process observer and then after watching the team's interactions provides feedback and then the team discusses the ways in which they can improve the team's process. I think this is a very smart approach and if i apply it in my team meetings we as a good would do much better. Further i even agree with the categorizing of team, I think this would help the team realize what kind of an attitude they need to have and the discipline they need to follow. I this would help the team achieve their goals quicker and would reduce conflicts and confusions as well.

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.