...Team Dynamics Teams is a group of two or more people who exist to fulfill a purpose and are interdependent or interact and influence each other, mutually accountable for achieving common goals, and perceive themselves as a social entity. Teams are groups, but groups are not the same as teams. Teams have task interdependence and some groups are just people gathered together. One example of a team is orchestra playing together at practice. They each have a specific role or musical piece they play, but the common task is getting the final musical piece mastered. Thus, who makes up teams and what type of teams are there. Many variations of teams exist such as, departmental teams, skunk works, which are small loosely structured corporate research and development units, or subsidiary formed to foster innovation. Some other types of teams include production/ service/ leadership teams, task force (project) teams, self-directed teams, virtual teams, advisory teams, and communities of practice. Some examples would include wound care teams in hospitals or unit practice counsels, infection control or any group of two people or more working toward the same task. Now, consider the members of the team. Individual members of a club, business, management department, or any other organization can come together to form a team. Now, consider the importance of teams and why it is important to rely on teams in the workforce. Teams provide valuable service for employers, employees, and...
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...Sociological Reflections on High School: a media analysis of Glee The following is a paper I wrote for a sociology class and I have been thinking alot about group dynamics and fitting in and the difference a close knit group of friends can make in one person's life...more on that topic to come. The minority to be analyzed is the subordinate group in the high school environment. More specifically: how can membership in a subordinate group perceived as “bottom of the rung”, enhance the cohesiveness of that socially subordinate group in the adolescent environment, and how does the subgroup attempt to overcome the negative perception imposed on them? The hypothesis being that members of a social group with specific goals, perceived as subordinate and influenced by the social superiority of their peers will bond as a result of common social maltreatment as well as common goals. The results of this study can provide an understanding of the realistic ability for high school aged children to develop healthy relationships despite their subordinate status within their social environment and whether this idea is accurately represented in the media. Literature Review In addressing the concrete definition and study of cohesion, Moody and White explain the ongoing issue of cohesion this way: “Although questions about social cohesion lie at the core of our discipline, definitions are often vague...
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...Fawn’s Psychology Paper: Introducing Psychology to Young Adults in Schools; A Comprehensive Study. The word psychology resides in the etymological crevice entitled “study of the soul” a field of knowledge that adopts the ever-evolving, broad body of academic and applicative precision in regards to the ‘science of mind’. Psychology ascended from a mixture of philosophy and biology, now thriving under the vast discipline it is today. Ever wondered why bullies choose to inflict pain upon others? Ever wondered why you’re not as happy as the boy with the higher income? Ever wondered why cliques neglect each other usually, then unify when a tragic event occurs? These emotional, hierarchical or social questions along with everything you do, think and feel are all factors under the psychological microscope. Psychology hides behind the curtain of Human Resources in Industrial-Organizational psychology at almost any business or corporation you might strive to work at, and criminal profilers who earned their degrees in Forensic Psychology are able to deduce a criminal’s next move by integral accumulated psychological understandings about the criminal- psychology is the foundation of personal, social and clerical understanding. The following paragraphs demonstrate the value psychology and how it affects us. Personality: Psychologists have corroborated in a myriad of personality theories and traits that the vast permutations create a distinction between every individual on the planet...
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...technological infrastructure necessary to support virtual teams is now readily available, further research on the range of issues surrounding virtual teams is required if we are to learn how to manage them effectively. While the findings of team research in the traditional environment may provide useful pointers, the idiosyncratic structural and contextual issues surrounding virtual teams call for specific research attention. This article provides a review of previously published work and reports on the findings from early virtual team research in an effort to take stock of the current state of the art. The review is organized around the input – process – output model and categorizes the literature into issues pertaining to inputs, socio-emotional processes, task processes, and outputs. Building on this review we critically evaluate virtual team research and develop research questions that can guide future inquiry in this fertile are of inquiry. ACM Categories: H.4.3, H.5.3, K.4.3 Keywords: Virtual teams, IS teams, Distributed Collaborative Work, Computer Mediated Communication Introduction Global competition, reengineered product life cycles, mass customization, and the increased need to respond quickly to customers’ needs are just some of the more pronounced trends currently driving organizational change (Grenier & Metes, 1995; Miles &...
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...MAKES A WORK GROUP EFFECTIVE The effectiveness of a work group can be measured by the degree to which it: 1. Accomplishes its task appropriately. 2. Enhances ability of its members to work together in the future (social system.) 3. Members experience personal growth and well-being. In order to achieve these objectives, the group must engage in appropriate processes that reflectii: 1. Sufficient effort to accomplish the task at an acceptable level of performance. 2. Adequate knowledge and skill brought to bear on the task. 3. Task performance strategies appropriate to the work and the setting Therefore, members of the group must not only pay attention to the content of group activities--that is, what the group is talking about and doing--but also to the group process—that is, how the group is going about its work and how its members are interacting. B. TASK AND SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF THE GROUP PROCESSiii Behavior in a group can be considered in terms of its apparent, as well as tacit, purposes or functions. The task and social dimensions of the group process are virtually inseparable. Task dimension: The work that the group is to perform—the job that group members have to do and how they go about doing it—measured by how effective and productive the group is. Social dimension: The relationships of group members with one another—how they...
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...Date: May 22th , 2013--- Work Teams and Effective Managers This paper will discuss groups and work-teams, and how can managers be effective in their roles accordingly. Global market competition is so fierce that Taylorism, Fordism and the approaches of lean organizations are not anymore enough, to maintain a substantial competence. Workgroups, a number exceeds two employees interact closely, with the awareness of their positive interdependence, whilst thriving to achieve common work-objectives. Team, a sophisticated group where every member interacts with and influences other members; all of them consider themselves a social entity in an organization, bearing a mutual accountability to achieve shared goals. Self-Managed-work team (SMWT), differs from a workgroup. SMWT, an employees’ cross-functional group who conducts technical tasks, to produce an output to serve internal/external clients; associated at higher levels of productivity and interdependence, and longer longevity in time span than those in workgroup. They exist in three types: Senior-level (plan, run), Middle-level (monitor), Lower-level (make). Team efficiency, requires a sound balance between both behavior processes, task-oriented (well-being within the group) and maintenance-oriented (getting job done). Many factors have potential impacts on social interrelations in teams/groups. Clarity and homogeneous role structure, gender, hierarchical status, norms, values, size and diversity will define the creativity...
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...Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by a number of symptoms including but not limited to: psychotic episodes, impaired social cognitive ability and varied levels of depression and withdrawal, can greatly impair. Therefore, it not only can cause a person to limit interaction with family and friends, but also significantly impacts social interaction with his or her peers, fellow workers, and/or people within general society. It is therefore understandable that people who experience schizophrenia often lack adaptation skills, suffer from cognitive deficits and also encounter the criminal justice system more frequently (BioMed central, 2010). However, several studies and hypotheses indicate a relationship between human development, family environment and relationships and the propensity for psychotic episodes and/or deficient levels of self-care and functionality within the social sphere of participation. Accordingly, this paper will examine schizophrenia, its definition and parameters, how child development influences its outcomes and how deficient socialization and cognitive abilities play key roles regarding outcomes. According to the DSM-IV-TR criteria; a schizophrenia diagnosis requires the patient to have at least two of the following symptoms for at least a one month period these symptoms include, “Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, catatonia or disorganized behavior and/or other negative symptoms including the blunting of affect,” (Kalapatupa and...
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...Ronda Mintz-Binder, RN, MN, DNP March 10, 2014 Effects of Humor and Laughter on Healing in Adults with Illness: A Multidisciplinary Concept Analysis The stressors of illness, together with the stressors of everyday life, can challenge the coping mechanisms of all patients. The relationship between humor and health dates back to the bible: “A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones” (Proverbs 17:22, New International Version). Research across many disciplines has shown humor to be an important tool in facilitating these coping skills Humor is an integral part of everyday life and, therefore, also a component of the care and treatment of patients in the modern health care system. The purpose of this paper is to examine and analyze the concept of humor along with laughter in the healthcare arena as well as serve as a vehicle in providing a clearer understanding of the thought and its therapeutic value in nursing. Review of Literature Don’t forget to summarize here!!!! Nursing Discipline A quantitative study was conducted by Astedt-Kurki & Liukkonen (1994) to illustrate the occurrence and meaning of humor in the nursing process, as described and experienced by professional nurses. Because humor can create a more relaxed atmosphere in nurse-patient interaction, it can also encourage feelings of togetherness, closeness, warmth, and friendliness can be fostered. Humor, they found, while helping forge a mutual relationship which can...
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...adolescence can be seen as the beginning of the end of childhood and as such is a time of mourning for the loss of the relative dependency and security of childhood, characterized by attempts at recapturing what was lost. As such it is a time filled with anticipation and foreboding in the face of freedom and separation, characterized by extreme and premature displays of independence and self-destructive and violent attempts to preserve the relative state of dependence. Every adolescent experiences different extremes of this change. Some glide through with minimal events triggering any abnormal or extreme case of emotional overload, others make choices that cause events in their life, which are traumatic and overwhelming, becoming all-consuming. One thing majority adolescents have in common is school. School is a different experience for every one; academics are challenging, social development is awkward, and the unknown of the future is within reach. Having a strong counseling program within a school can provide direction in responding to all of the students needs within the school community. Counseling may be individual or group, and at times a student may need to be referred to outside counseling, however small group counseling can fit within a school with the proper organization and facilitation. The concerns of high school students...
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...No. 1, September, pp. 99–130, 2001 doi:10.1006/obhd.2001.2974, available online at http://www.idealibrary.com on Mood and Emotions in Small Groups and Work Teams Janice R. Kelly Purdue University and Sigal G. Barsade Yale University Affective influences abound in groups. In this article we propose an organizing model for understanding these affective influences and their effects on group life. We begin with individuallevel affective characteristics that members bring to their groups: moods, emotions, sentiments, and emotional intelligence. These affective characteristics then combine to form a group’s affective composition. We discuss explicit and implicit processes through which this affective combination occurs by examining the research on emotional contagion, entrainment, modeling, and the manipulation of affect. We also explore how elements of the affective context, such as organizationwide emotion norms and the group’s particular emotional history, may serve to constrain or amplify group members’ emotions. The outcome, group emotion, results from the combination of the group’s affective composition and the affective context in which the group is behaving. Last, we focus on the important interaction between nonaffective factors and affective factors in group life and suggest a possible 2001 Academic Press agenda for future research. During the past century, a tremendous amount of research attention has been devoted to understanding the structure and performance...
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...examples, Taylor, 1947; Whyte 1956). Only recently has research begun to focus on the many facets of emotions on organization behavior (Huy, 2012; Kluemper, DeGroot, & Choi, 2013; Mirela & Iulia, 2013; Muchinsky, 2000; Perrone & Vickers, 2004; Zineldin, 2012). This paper will address several aspects of emotions in the workplace, including: managing emotions, displaying emotions, management styles that use emotions as a tool, and changing an organization’s emotional climate. Managing Emotions Of the five categories of emotions defined by Lazarus and Lazarus (1994, cited in Muchinsky 2000), only two of the three categories consist of positive emotions. Muchinsky (2000) hypothesizes that it is how we respond to emotions, our coping efforts, that “are a major contributing factor in understanding job performance” (804). Several factors can make some organizations ineffective at managing emotions. The first is due to coping efforts, which are “not just a fixed set of strategies…but a changing pattern that is responsive to what is happening” (Muchinsky, 2000, p. 804). For some organization where managing “fixed strategies” is already difficult, they may be ineffective at managing the complexity of emotional coping. Organizations experiencing radical change may also be ineffective at managing emotions. Events such as mergers, acquisitions, downsizing, and changes in organizational identity can elicit similar emotions in large groups of individuals, called...
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...During the process of envisioning and designing a film, the director, production designer, and art director (in collaboration with the cinematographer) are concerned with several major spatial and temporal elements. These design elements punctuate and underscore the movement of figures within the frame, including the following: setting, lighting, costuming, makeup, and hairstyles. Choose a scene from movieclips.com. In a three to five page paper, (excluding the cover and reference pages) analyze the mise-en-scène. used this type of lighting because of the significant effects it would present in the scene (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2011). When the movie starts, Aro the leader of the Volturi is fascinated when he sees Bella is immune to all the vampire’s amazing powers the lighting looks hazy with smoky appearance. The lighting defines Aro making him stand out more; his eyes were noticeable blood shoot red while the appearance of Marcus and Caius were a bit blurred. I thought the lighting of the scene evokes fear, worry, and death of Bella and Edward. The use of back lighting made the focus on Belle clearer which gives me the impression that the director wanted to show the dissimilar of dead and living highlights to detail features of Bella’s rosy cheekbone. By using low-key lighting, this allows the film to have huge amounts of shadow which create a lot of intensity in the overall storyline of the film. The director’s choices of lighting create depth in the structure giving...
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...Title: Elements of Illusion Course: ENG225: Introduction to Film Instructor: Jonathan Belle Author: Amanda Manley Date: 3/20/2014 During the process of envisioning and designing a film, the director, production designer, and art director (in collaboration with the cinematographer) are concerned with several major spatial and temporal elements. These design elements punctuate and underscore the movement of figures within the frame, including the following: setting, lighting, costuming, makeup, and hairstyles. Choose a scene from movieclips.com. In a three to five page paper, (excluding the cover and reference pages) analyze the miser-en-scène. Used this type of lighting because of the significant effects it would present in the scene (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2011). When the movie starts, Aro the leader of the Volturi is fascinated when he sees Bella is immune to all the vampire’s amazing powers the lighting looks hazy with smoky appearance. The lighting defines Aro making him stand out more; his eyes were noticeable blood shoot red while the appearance of Marcus and Caius were a bit blurred. I thought the lighting of the scene evokes fear, worry, and death of Bella and Edward. The use of back lighting made the focus on Belle clearer which gives me the impression that the director wanted to show the dissimilar of dead and living highlights to detail features of Bella’s rosy cheekbone. By using low-key lighting, this allows the film to have huge amounts of shadow which...
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...CASE STUDY 7 An understanding of the stages of group development could indeed help Christine in several ways. First, in the forming stage, Christine could have established some group rules to specify what is considered acceptable behavior. Indeed, she should have emphasized that attendance is mandatory, stated dates and times of meetings, personal lives should not interfere with teamwork, and that everyone analysis should be clear and typed. In effect, it is at this stage that a clear objective is set , everyone's roles is defined, direction is given, team members discover their respective task and understand how they will be held accountable for their contribution. However, Christine would have understood that she probably needs to be more strict with Mike because he acts as if he was excluded when he is not. Christine exchange with him at the first meeting and she had a first good impression. Therefore, just as it is required at this stage, Christine took some time to introduce herself to him to try to know each other better. In the forming stage, Christine would have then understood that it is imperative to clarify what is expected from anyone. Mike would have then understood that his analysis should have been more thorough and professionally presented. However, Christine should explain to Mike that other teammates are not meeting without him on purpose because Mike feels left out and this is probably one of the reasons he is skipping the meetings and that he doesnt...
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...Emily Delaney Research Paper Sociology Sociological Imagination Bauman states that sociology is “first and foremost, a way of thinking about the human world” (Bauman 1990, p. 8). And all the material for sociological discoveries is made from the ordinary human experiences. “Anything sociology talks about was already there in our lives” (Bauman 1990, p.10). Bauman proves the impossibility to study sociological miracles with complete fairness, as a sociologist at first, part of this ordinary human world. And he also emphasizes the fact that “sociological discourse” is “wide open”. Bauman believes that thinking sociologically would make us more “sensitive” to our lives and the lives of other people to help us understand the different aspects of human experiences in happiness, sadness, desire, disappointments, misery etc. This essay is an attempt to understand what thinking sociologically really is by reviewing Zigmunt Bauman’s book “Thinking sociologically” which was first published in 1990. The sociological imagination is the concept of being able to “think ourselves away” from the familiar routines of our daily lives in order to look at them anew. Mills defined sociological imagination as “the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society” (Crossman 1991, p.1). I am going to summarize the first couple chapters of the book to further see the qualities of a human’s everyday life experience. Hopefully this will create an interest...
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