Psy/311 Week 3
Case Study Week 3 – Building a Coalition
Part I: Group Development
The state that this group is at right now is the “storming stage”(Robbins & Judge, 2013). Even though there are clear differences on the thinking of different groups of how to implement the after school program or who should head it, the common goal is still to meet the needs of the students and to better their learning and scores. The Woodson Foundation, the school and the NCPIE are coming together to form a development team but is having conflict on who will control the group and this is clearly a sign that the group is in its “storming stage”. If the group knew that there are five stages to fully become a functional group, they may come into an agreement to move onwards …show more content…
My next solution came from what we have discussed this week which is the “Hawthorne studies”. I remember the quote that my classmate Hugh had posted: “If everyone is special, then no one is”. We may be able to use positive recognition and remove the negative feelings towards each other. For instance, when the candidates are chosen, I would phrase it as “You three are handpicked from hundreds of candidate. We feel that only you guys are qualified to make this mission succeed. I believe by making them feel that they are the only ones that can accomplish this goal, they will work as hard as they can to make their groups come together. This will eliminate the difference they feel towards each other’s believes and also expand into trying to convince others to work together as well. As more people get on board with the idea, we can form sub teams under the leaders of the team and inform them also that they will now be the “special” bunch that need to spread the word among the public about how important it is to be part of this project and make it work. This will eventually have a ripple effect. The pro about this project is that it will bring people together and eliminate the differences. The cons would be that if anyone realizes that they are not “special” and everyone is “special” , then this effect will fade. Therefore, other incentives can be added which is discussed
Part I: Group Development
The state that this group is at right now is the “storming stage”(Robbins & Judge, 2013). Even though there are clear differences on the thinking of different groups of how to implement the after school program or who should head it, the common goal is still to meet the needs of the students and to better their learning and scores. The Woodson Foundation, the school and the NCPIE are coming together to form a development team but is having conflict on who will control the group and this is clearly a sign that the group is in its “storming stage”. If the group knew that there are five stages to fully become a functional group, they may come into an agreement to move onwards …show more content…
My next solution came from what we have discussed this week which is the “Hawthorne studies”. I remember the quote that my classmate Hugh had posted: “If everyone is special, then no one is”. We may be able to use positive recognition and remove the negative feelings towards each other. For instance, when the candidates are chosen, I would phrase it as “You three are handpicked from hundreds of candidate. We feel that only you guys are qualified to make this mission succeed. I believe by making them feel that they are the only ones that can accomplish this goal, they will work as hard as they can to make their groups come together. This will eliminate the difference they feel towards each other’s believes and also expand into trying to convince others to work together as well. As more people get on board with the idea, we can form sub teams under the leaders of the team and inform them also that they will now be the “special” bunch that need to spread the word among the public about how important it is to be part of this project and make it work. This will eventually have a ripple effect. The pro about this project is that it will bring people together and eliminate the differences. The cons would be that if anyone realizes that they are not “special” and everyone is “special” , then this effect will fade. Therefore, other incentives can be added which is discussed