Teams

Addressing Challenges of Groups and Teams

LDR 531

October 25, 2010

Dr. Ernest Price

Addressing Challenges of Groups and Teams

Enron was a leading innovative company; however, Enron lacked effective leadership and management. Enron was in need of leaders motivate the organization to meet those goals, to develop a clear vision of the company’s goals, monitor results and resolve the issues that the company was facing. If Enron would have implemented and developed an effective management and leadership development training program it possibly could have led to continued success at Enron rather than failure. Learning team D developed a training plan that would have provided opportunities for Enron to advance its collaboration, communication, and internal conflicts. Within this essay I will examine the processes, practices, and behaviors that prohibited Enron from effectively collaborating and communicating, offer training ideas that may have assisted the leaders at Enron with being successful. I will also examine how this training plan had the ability to improve the leaders and employees within Enron.

To create a successful training plan, we must first recognize the issues at hand within Enron’s management team (Robbins & Judge, 2007).   The first concern Enron faced was what management considered acceptable standards of behavior; the management standard was the unethical behavior displayed by management. The managers within Enron were not a team, there was no collaboration about contracts nor was there effective communication. Contracts were approved with what was best financially for management instead of what was best for the company. Enron did not carry out a competitive bidding process, which eventually impacted the company, employees, and shareholders, leading to the company’s failure (Time Magazine, 2002).

The ethical dilemmas that the company faced, was the presence of conformity. Conformity is defined as adjusting...