Week 3 Mgt/311-Learning Team Reflection

Week 3 MGT/311-Learning Team Reflection

In week 3 we learn about groups and their importance to the work place. Twenty years ago not many companies included much group working, but today many companies use it in over 50% of their work force. Whether you are in a formal or informal group there is always a task at hand and that task has some sort of schedule for completion. People form groups in the work place without even knowing it, for example when one each lunch at the same time and same people each day, that is a group. Another group of people may car pool together in the mornings. People form groups in almost every society in our global community, the whys could all be different based on cultures, but almost all humans like to feel a part of something. There is a need to be a part of something bigger than one self, for example belonging to a church.

Josh uses group work every day in his current management position with T-Mobile. Josh has 13 store markets where all stores work together to reach their team quotas. Josh has many different groups that he is a part of in his daily work. Josh has his personal store groups, and his management groups as well as his market groups. Each group talks about different goals that need to be met, and each group has different types of goals which are also more or less important than other groups. These work groups with in T-Mobile are within every store nationally and every market. T-Mobile does most everything by work groups.

Elena does not carry a typical job as we think of; she is a stay at home mother. Even though most people say, that raising kids is harder than going to an office for a paycheck. Elena does not have groups with in her home, but she does for groups when she meets up with other kids for play time each week. This would be considered a group because it is a joining of people to do a task. No one ever said that there had to be an age group on the task at hand.

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