Team

Imagine that your team is a group of highly respected consultants and you are being paid a great deal of money to study and assist the company to which you have been assigned.

You must analyze the case carefully in order to earn your huge consultants’ fee -- your team will use our textbook and other resources in order to determine the main problem(s) in the case.

Your objective is to make, and support one of two choices:

a) If you feel the situation can be remedied, determine and recommend action(s) that can be taken.

b) If you decide it is too late and too much damage has been done, determine and describe actions that should have been taken before it got this bad.

You may do this in whatever way works for you, but here are some tips:

• Read the case at least once or twice just to “get it.”

• Then, read it again and take notes on the issues as you identify them.

• As a team, create a list of all the issues.

• Decide which ones are most important.

• Split up the work.

• Do research in the text and in other resources on the issues you’ve identified as most important. NOTE: You will have to read ahead in the text, as we might not yet have covered all of your case’s key issues.

• Remember the saying: The whole is bigger than the sum of its parts. Don’t assume you can each do a part and it will somehow come into one good final product. To be successful, you must work well together. Your final presentation to the rest of us will require blending your various parts, criticizing each other’s work, making changes, etc. In other words, in doing the project, you will use insights you’ve gained about how to be an effective team.

Process

Focusing on the content alone will not make your work successful. You must also focus on group process. Each of you has your own strengths to be built upon. Conflict can be positive if handled well.

Everyone on the team is expected to participate equally. There is no room for “social loafing.”...