Teamwork

Coming to the middle of first year in college, the sociology teacher sprung group work on the class, which was all about raising money for charity, and reviewing people’s perceptions in the modern day to day world about giving money to charity. The teacher put the class in random groups, which left the class working with people who they didn’t really know.

The group I was in consisted of three females and two males, which was kind of funny that the only two boys in the class where in the same group. That same day the group set to the library to construct a plan, funny enough I noticed had the hard working people in my group, which had me motivated even before we even started the work, the team came together, with limited disagreements, and we achieved are objective, this was looked as a successful and hard working group by the team members and the teacher

The theory that best relates to my college teamwork experience is tuckman , Tuckman's model explains that as the team develops maturity and ability, relations established, and the head changes leadership style. The module has five different stages which are forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning.

Forming is when the team just get together and start knowing each other. Storming is when the team goes through a rainy season and there is allot of infighting and demotivation .Norming this is the group starts to control issues, can getting found of a process to carry out the task. Performing this is where the group become more supportive to carry out and complete the task.

Adjourning this is make or break, if a team is willing to work with each other again, or cannot wait to leave, in my case the team i worked with would love to work with each other again. This would be seen as successful, because all the stages encountered by my group, was taken head on in a positive way.

Tuckman suggest that a group goes through 5 different stages which is known as forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning, my group from the first assignment  fits  into Tuckman’s  module, because the group went through all the stages outlined, some stages more intense than others. We did not perform greatly in the performance stage and this had a great effect on the end result, even though we went through the five stages it ended up with not adjourning again. Compared to the group i worked with at college, we performed poorly or maybe because the work in university is more advanced than college.

The two companies that are going to be looked at are:
1) Office Angles (recruitment consultancy)
2) Microsoft IT/internet


Office Angles use team work as a major driving force to motivate staff and encourage them to work hard, the company goes further by explaining how, they use rewards to encourage staff compete amongst themselves. The company renders rewards such as trips to Dubai, New York and Barbados.

Microsoft employees are said to get a buzz from working in teams, a workforce consisting of 2625 have people who enjoy helping their team mates, outings outside work is seen as a team bonding session as well as leisure

To conclude, working in teams has seen to work for organisations in the sense of getting them to work hard, and achieve goals, however we should not fail to remember, that not all teams work well with each other.