...Woodson Foundation Group Development has five stages which are forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning. Within these stages Woodson could have known they were in the forming stage and how to proceed. This would be when behavior of each organization and structure to achieve goals would be outlined. Once the groups have determine a platform and group goals they will be able to work together towards achieving the outcomes. Problem Identification Each organization has their own mission statement which has different methods and outcomes for their goals. What they have in common is that all want education system to improve but the ways in which they improve are not the same. Woodson wants communities and parents to decide on education plans while the school districts want job security, union, and to keep current policies. These two groups are headed in different directions and would not come to a similar outcome. One is focus on teachers and the other students and community needs. Retrospective evaluation Group development, properties and decision making are areas that could have aided the development process. Group development stages forming and performing would be two areas of development I would focus on first. During the process group properties roles, status and cohesiveness would be discuss and plan to avoid conflict. Reflection Last group of property is diversity and it advises how to work with different cultures and what to expect. It goes into...
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...Woodson Foundation Team Development Kevin Hornsby Hornsbyk@cboe.com MGMT-591-20624 Professor Kenneth Steinkruger January 24, 2015 Abstract During the course of conducting business, often times organization seek information from case studies. Case studies present an account of things that have happened in organizations and how things turned around. Today we will look at a case study involving the Woodson Foundation offering recommendations in a role of a consultant. Introduction We have been hired as a consultant for the Woodson Foundation, an organization that specializes in the management of teams, advising those whom have hired them, best courses of action through analysis. The Washington D.C. School district has hired the Woodson Foundation to analyze and offer solutions to correct the problems that are currently plaguing the school system. As a consultant working with the Woodson Foundation, we have been tasked with recommending a process that will be used to decide who should be on the team working with the D.C. school system. The Woodson Foundation will develop an Executive Development Team, whom will actually implement the changes that will be needed in the D.C. school system, our job as consultant is to advise on the process of selecting team members which will best suit the needs of the client. Type of Team In the selection of persons whom will operate on the team working with the D.C. public schools puts the firm in the preliminary...
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...Keller Graduate School of Management DeVry University Case Study 2 xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx Table of Contents I. Introduction II. Situations and Solutions a.Williams Oil Services b. Scott Sales Services c. Craig’s List III. Assessment IV. References I. INTRODUCTION Internal Control is one of the most vital issues that every company has to have inorder to have a better chance of success. Inorder to protect company’s assets and prevent from theft, fraud or unauthorized use of company property, one of the best preventive process is to teach all employees of how Internal Control exist in the company, in the company’s environment, and how employees need to abide to it, and also in its process and overall in the entirety of the company. Statistics indicate that companies with 100 or less employees is prone to fraud or misappropriate use of company’s property; which almost 32% of fraud occurred. While bigger companies with more than 1,000 employees have bigger losses; and have threatened some companies into deep trouble. Enron, a huge company is one example where some of their management team members and employees committed fraud or embezzlement. With the various corporate or business scandals happened in Corporate America, Congress had introduced and passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). Under SOX, all publicly traded companies were required to maintain an adequate system of internal control. Under Section 404 of the SOX, states that...
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...Case Study for Building a Coalition for Woodson Foundation. The Woodson Foundation, a large nonprofit social service agency is teaming up with the public school system in Washington D.C. to improve student outcomes. There’s ample room for improvement. The schools have problems with truancy, low student performance, and crime. New staff quickly burn out as their initial enthusiasm for helping students is blunted by the harsh realities they encounter in the classroom. Turnover among new teachers is very high, and many of the best and brightest are the most likely to leave for schools that aren’t as troubled. The Stags of Group Development for the Woodsom foundation in building a cohesive coalition The First Stage is bringing the new plan in development is forming an executive development committee or team with the help of Human Resource to choose the right candidates for the jobs. The Second Stage will be Storming which gives conflict towards each and individual group and creates doubts also each group have its own interests and some cases they can directly opposed to one another. For this stage they have to be work as a team and leave all the intensive and doubtful behavior outside of the team. Then only this stage work The Third Stage will be Norming in this for the achieving the certain purpose the goals have set up to start the performance and the team has learn how to set aside your doubts and how to learn work productively together. Who will do what work and...
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...the Woodson Foundation, the schools and the NCPIE have not formed groups yet. In the first stage of group development, the forming stage, the members are still unsure of the structure, leadership and purpose of the group. According to the case study, the groups still have not been formed although there are possible candidates selected to contribute to each group. By understand the stages of group development, the Woodson Foundation could form a cohesive coalition. Forming Stage – In this stage, the members of the group are still unsure of what is to come. Each member is getting to know the purpose of the group and each member within the group along with the behaviors that are acceptable. By having hand-picked groups already formed at the very beginning, the Woodson Foundation can build a strong foundation for success. Storming and Norming Stages – Within these stages begins the conflicts, creates leadership and ends with strong ideas about how members of the group need to work together. By understanding these stages, the Woodson Foundation would be on their way to creating great ideas to help the Washington, D.C. school system. Performing and Adjourning Stages – The performing stage is when the group stops reflecting so much on each other and starts performing the task at hand. Adjourning is when the group is wrapping up all their ideas and following through with what they came up with by implementing them in the actual situation. In order for the Woodson Foundation to...
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...powerful team the school board, Woodson Foundation and NCPIE. The executive development team is past the forming stage they know who will be working towards this common goal and what they bring to the table, so that means they are in the storming stage because they all their own plans on how to go about change the culture of the young children of DC. They all oppose to some of the ideas of the other parties have because it does create so kind of conflict of interest not everyone goes about doing business the same way. The executive team could go a long way and could an easier time navigating the concerns of the other groups in they knew how to form a group and the stages that it takes to become a functionally group that works well together, in the mist of them storming to fit the right fit amongst each other if the Woodson Foundation had a clear understanding of the process then know this is the hard part letting NCPIE and the school board do what they do well and just focusing on what aspect they are strong at which would be normalizing the group to full power setting the standards and goals the meet the expectations of the community as well as the school board but putting forth the best after school program that would maximize the educational chances for all the kids that would be involved. Part 2 The primary problem the Woodson group is facing is bring a formable team together but there some major challenges’ ahead the Woodson group is skillful at raise money...
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...learned how to work together as a team, who is better at performing with tasks and what to do when somebody is falling behind. Leadership takes more of the delegating role. Adjourning: This stage takes place after the project completed. Team members often want to know where to go from here and what is the next goal or project. The stage described in the study is the forming stage of the team development. Not all the group members are identified, not everyone knows each other. People are uncertain on how to proceed and how to communicate with each other. Based on description of the future potential team members and different organizations involved in the project, The Woodson Foundation should expect quite dramatic storming stage for the future team. The knowledge of the team development stages will help Woodson to recognize why conflicts arise and how to...
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...gives the group structure, with guidelines set for the behavior of each member. The performing stage is the fourth stage in the development model. In this stage, the group is completely structured and each member is performing their task at hand. The adjourning stage is the final stage in the development model, in which short term committees and other staff complete unfinished activities of the group as they prepare to dismiss. The Woodson Foundation is now in the storming stage. The school district is concerned about Woodson Foundation having too much control. The school system is concerned about jeopardizing their procedures and protocols of the faculty and staff for the procedures of Woodson Foundation. In order for Woodson Foundation to create a coalition with the school system I think following the five stage model would be very beneficial. The Woodson Foundation have to reassure the school system they are not trying to control but intervene in making some changes for the enhancement of the school. Since the school system and the Woodson Foundation have agreed to form a separate agency, one of the major issues is who is going to lead the executive development team. The secondary issue is deciding on a process for choosing members. It is important to choose team members based on preference,...
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...significant changes to the current state, a proposal to develop a new after school program to target these three problem areas. The Woodson Foundation has extensive skills in raising private funds and coordinating community efforts with that of educational professionals. Utilizing the strengths of the Woodson Foundation will be paramount to creating a successful after-school program. Assets to Successful Implementation: * All Parties have the common goal and benefit of student success. * The Woodson Foundation has a proven track record of raising funds to create a program that is self-reliant and not dependent on revues from the school board. Additionally, they have won several awards for minimizing costs and still proving excellent service. * National Coalition for Parental Involvement (NCPIE) is able to encourage parental involvement via the PTA by educating parents in constructive ways to assist the program. * Teaching staff is motivated by better student performance as it will result in a more positive working environment * Enhancing student performance will in turn help resolve truancy and crime Hindrances to Successful Implementation: * Bureaucratic School Board wants to limit practices within existing policies and procedures with strict hiring guidelines. * Racial imbalance in diversity among members of the Woodson Foundation * NCPIE feels parents should have more control over educational concerns while school faculty feels they should have more...
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...HBM CASE STUDY Building Coalition GROUP MEMBERS: Tçâá{ f|Çz{ ;DFU`ICCIH< f{|á{|Ü ftåxÇt ;DFU`ICCGH< ZtztÇ WxxÑ ftztÜ ;DFU`ICCIC< fÉâÜtä U|~tá{ etÇt ;DFU`ICCLD< Building a Coalition “After-school program to improve performance of students” Introduction: Woodson Foundation, a large non-profit social service agency, is teaming up with the public school system in Washington, D.C., to improve student outcome by starting an after-school program. To achieve the set target, Woodson Foundation and the school system have to work in collaboration by integrating their organizations effectively. Problems faced by the school: • • Truancy, low student performance and crime Burn out of staff and high turnover among new teachers Solution suggested by Woodson Foundation: • • Conducting an after-school program Integrate organizations effectively How Groups and teams typically operate: A team is a group of people holding themselves collectively accountable for using complementary skills to achieve a common purpose. Thus teamwork occurs when team members live up to their collective accountability for goal accomplishment. For defining the teams in an organization and their functions the first thing is to recognize that they do many things and make many types of performance contributions. Thus teams can be described as that • Recommend things: Teams that study specific problems and recommend solutions for them. These teams have a deadline for target completion and often disband...
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...Course: MGMT591 Professor: Robert Paschke Part 1: Group Development The Woodson Foundation and the Washington DC public school system are teaming up to create an experimental after school program to tackle certain ongoing issue with the school system. The ongoing issues include rapid staff turnover and truancy, low performance and crime amongst students. The plan, after months of negotiation is to create an agency that will integrate both the Woodson Foundation and the DC Schools organization and be financially self-sufficient. To make this possible, the first step is to create an executive development team that will establish the operating plan for improving school performance. From what we have read in the case study and the text book material, this group can be considered to be in two stages simultaneously. This is a group that is still in the “forming” stage – there is a great deal of uncertainty, members have not yet been identified and none of the group properties (roles, norms, status, size, cohesiveness and diversity) have been clearly defined (with one exception, that of the group size). While the group is still in the forming stage there is also conflict brewing. Each of the group members have their interests at heart. The school district representatives want to ensure that the new jobs are unionized and that current policies and procedures are applicable. Woodson Foundation is focused on performance measurement using hard data, which is not consistent with the existing...
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...to complete their task. Finally, a reflection is made over the team's accomplishments and that is to be known as the adjourning stage. In the case study Building a Coalition, the members of the group are currently in the forming stage of their group development. This being because they have yet to identify exactly what three members are going to be included in the final team. Once their team members are set that will get the ball rolling to proceed to the next stage, storming. The Woodson Foundation could have benefited from understanding the stages of group development in that it could have acted as an effective resource that has proper guidelines in place to know what it takes to form a highly functioning team. From the information presented in the article, it is apparent that the Woodson Foundation is reluctant in working together with the other organizations in order to create a successful program. Seeing that each of the groups have their specific areas of strong concern, like the Woodson foundation's focus on hard data, NCPIE's focus on the parents, and the school's consistency with the school board and unionization with new jobs, the development...
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...LaToyra Lewis Case Study: Building a Coalition January 26, 2014 Part I: Group Development While teaming up with the public school system in Washington, D.C, the Woodson Foundation, a non-profit social service agency, needs to create an executive development team; to improve student outcomes within the schools. In order for you to develop this team, you must first understand the stage of group development. There is typically a five-stage model that must groups following in forming teams, however not all groups go through each stage at the same time. The five-stage model consists of the following stages: 1. Forming 2. Storming 3. Norming 4. Performing 5. Adjourning Each stage is essential in its own way. The forming stage is crucial to choosing the right individuals to form your team. You will need to maintain a cross-organizational nature, so therefore representatives from the Woodson Foundation, the school district and the NCPIE (National Coalition for Parental Involvement in Education) all must be a part of this team. You will need an HR representative from the Woodson foundation, the schools and the NCPIE. The in the second stage of storming, there will be conflict at this stage because each member is unclear about who will take on the leadership role. Once leadership is established, it is important to get each member of the team to come together and storm or share ideas and thoughts about the purpose and issues at hand. The third stage of norming...
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...MGMT 591 Leadership and Org Behavior Case Study! Part 1: Group Development The Woodson Foundation, the Washington D.C. public school system and The National Coalition for Parental Involvement in Education (NCPIE) have decided to combat a problem within the school district together. The schools have problems with students skipping class, low grades, and crime. Turnover rates for newly hired teachers are high as their enthusiasm for reaching students gets discouraged when they encounter the harsh reality of the classrooms. Woodson Foundation’s was sought due to their ability to raise funds, The district’s ability to garner help from community leaders, coupled with the NPCIE’s ability to get parents involved. (Robbins 629) We find the organization at the Storming Stage. This stage is one of intra-group conflict. Members accept the existence of the group but resist the constraints it imposes on individuality. There is conflict over who will control the group and what path the organization will take to meet its mission. (Robbins 275). Every organization needs to understand that although they will all go through these challenges, the each group needs to contribute in order to meet mission .The internal process is brought about within each group’s individual strengths: 1. The School District has the teaching ability and the backing of the union. 2. The Woodson Group operating as a fundraising and networking powerhouse. 3. The NCPIE knows what the parents of the community...
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...Case Study Week 3 Zhengyu Gui dragonfly8563@gmail.com MGMT591 Professor Bodero July 2014 Group Development When developing teams, a five-stage group-development model called the Tuckman Ladder is referenced most often. The model, first proposed by the educator Bruce Tuckman, is consisted of five distinct stages all teams go through: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. Each stage is characterized as the following: * Forming: Characterized by a great deal of uncertainty about the group’s purpose, structure, and leadership. Not until these issues are sorted out members can think of themselves as part of the team and move on to the next stage. * Storming: Characterized by intragroup conflict. Members accept the existence of the group but resist the constraints it imposes on individuality. There is conflict over who will control the group. When this stage is complete, there will be a relatively clear hierarchy of leadership within the group. * Norming: Characterized by close relationships and cohesiveness. There is now a strong sense of group identity and camaraderie. This stage is complete when the group structure solidifies and the group has assimilated a common set of expectations of what defines correct member behavior. * Performing: Characterized by fully functional group. The group structure at this point is fully functional and accepted. Group energy has moved from getting to know and understand each other to performing the...
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