Essay on Committee

A. What stage of team development do you think the commit has reached? Explain three reasons why you think this is so.

A. There are four stages of team development: forming, storming, norming and performing. According to the text, the commit has reached only the first stage – forming.
– Forming stage of team development is characterized by polite but untrusting relationships among team members and it is what is described in the text.
– It is the first level of team development, because the formalities are preserved and members are treated as strangers in the committee.
– Members of the committee doesn’t feel as a part of the team and don’t realize that they can achieve work if they accept other viewpoints. Also the team works are not in an open and trusting atmosphere where flexibility is the key and hierarchy is of little importance.

B. Identify three problems hat may be behind the limited involvement of most of the committee members
B. There are a lot of problems that may be behind the limited involvement of most of the committee members, but the most vivid are:
– Team members don’t want to take active part in discussion of the problem, don’t express their thoughts, and don’t support each other’s ideas.
– Tanya Petric is a new comer to the team and the team doesn’t accept her as a leader and that is why they can’t work as a professional successful committee.
– The members of the team don’t trust Tanya as a team leader. They don’t like her plan and don’t agree with her way of management.
All problems mentioned above and all prevent team from achieving goals.

C. Explain why the committee will likely fail to achieve its goal of properly updating the training plan if Tanya does not try to get the other committee members more involved
C. The committee will likely fail to achieve its goal of properly updating the training plan if Tanya does not try to get the other committee members more involved. It is a well-known fact that “the art of managing people is the most difficult and the highest of all arts”. Perhaps there is no more difficult profession than the profession of the head manager. Being a good leader, according to experts – is first of all to have good relations with subordinates. Only with good leadership the good work of the subordinates can be achieved.
Usually, a head manager is a key figure in the team. The behavior of manager has a major influence on decision-making of employees. Thus, the head can significantly affect the ethical conduct of their subordinates.
When a group of workers has the right leader, then this team will be able to work towards common goal, achieve good results. In our situation the team must work together at the meetings to find new ideas to update the working plan. So if Tanya Petric will act correctly, she will organize the members and make the team work.