Organizational Behavior
Question 1.
Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the executive’s actions in the emergency service agency (Note: in your response, please specify how diverse member characteristics are related to team performance, cohesiveness, conflict, and norms)
Diversity within an organization encompasses elements such as nationality, religion, social status, age, etc. These elements can benefit organizations, but it can also harm it with a lack of management. The main idea is to combine people’s strengths in order to reach the company’s goals by strengthening teams’ productivity and responsiveness to changing conditions. Each person within a diverse workplace has unique strengths and weaknesses originated from their culture, and when these heterogeneous teams are well managed, it can make an impact in the workforce greater than the sum of its parts. In the rest of the answer I will touch base with how diverse teams are directly related to team performance, cohesiveness, conflict, and norms. In my opinion the more different types of personalities in a team the more successful the team will be. I am sure that is how the head of the emergency service is thinking as well. The success of a collaborative team is highly dependable on a set of combined skills and different personalities which make them take different approaches to solve problems. A manager who is in charge of a diverse team must be able to make these people recognize the value of exploring a problem from several angles. On the other hand, diversity has also negative impact which can place impediments in effective communication slowing down productivity and cohesiveness. Different cultures can clash when it is not properly used in given roles. The biggest challenge in this situation is to bring the cohesion among the members which can be very difficult. The inability of motivating the team members making them spend time together can seriously damage the group cohesiveness. It is also important to take into
Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the executive’s actions in the emergency service agency (Note: in your response, please specify how diverse member characteristics are related to team performance, cohesiveness, conflict, and norms)
Diversity within an organization encompasses elements such as nationality, religion, social status, age, etc. These elements can benefit organizations, but it can also harm it with a lack of management. The main idea is to combine people’s strengths in order to reach the company’s goals by strengthening teams’ productivity and responsiveness to changing conditions. Each person within a diverse workplace has unique strengths and weaknesses originated from their culture, and when these heterogeneous teams are well managed, it can make an impact in the workforce greater than the sum of its parts. In the rest of the answer I will touch base with how diverse teams are directly related to team performance, cohesiveness, conflict, and norms. In my opinion the more different types of personalities in a team the more successful the team will be. I am sure that is how the head of the emergency service is thinking as well. The success of a collaborative team is highly dependable on a set of combined skills and different personalities which make them take different approaches to solve problems. A manager who is in charge of a diverse team must be able to make these people recognize the value of exploring a problem from several angles. On the other hand, diversity has also negative impact which can place impediments in effective communication slowing down productivity and cohesiveness. Different cultures can clash when it is not properly used in given roles. The biggest challenge in this situation is to bring the cohesion among the members which can be very difficult. The inability of motivating the team members making them spend time together can seriously damage the group cohesiveness. It is also important to take into