Task Groups

Those in the work force will have a supervisor they must answer to, as well as coworkers they work with every day. Since there are many different personalities, problems could arise which in result will help a task group to improve relationships with one another form.
When can task groups be used for those in the work force?
Studies by Furman, Rowan, and Bender 2014 supports that Social workers are likely to encounter many task groups throughout their careers through their employment and participation in different agencies and organizations. (Furman, Rowan, & Bender, 2014). With task groups are very popular among employment agencies, they can be used for those in the work place when a problem arises. Task work can be beneficial to those who
When problems arise, whether in a school, hospital, corrections center, or an agency task groups are a way to either dissolve or solve the problem. We all have been in a task group in some form. In the work place it is very common because there is always room for improvement. Working in a school falls into the work force. Jacobs, Masson, & Harvill (2009) state “professions all involved in the treatment of one student (for example, a counselor, two teachers, a social worker, and a special-education coordinator” (Jacobs et al. 2009). This is brought up because I have personal experience with this. When I had interned at an elementary school we had a student who had already been retained for second grade. While in the second year of second grade they were falling behind again. Since I was interning under the social worker and counselor at this elementary school I was fortunate enough to sit in this meeting. This meeting had occurred in the beginning of the school year so the student would have time to catch up. In this meeting, it included a social worker, the second-grade teacher, the school psychologist, a speech therapist, assistant principal, the students’ parents and a special-education coordinator. In this meeting, they had discussed how the child was falling behind. The teacher had offered a program where the student could practice everything in class at home. This program was like practice work for everything that was learned in class, and would also be graded, but taken as many times as needed. The special education teacher was there to find out if there was any need to put her in a special education class since she was falling behind in second grade for the second time. The parents were confused as to why this was happening because their child would do all their homework and would seem to do fine, but in school would struggle. This group of experienced workers, and the parents had come