Mgt 501 Managing Groups

MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

MGT501

Module 3

Case Assignment

Managing Groups

Holbrook

TOURO UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL

Managing Groups

Our society is made up of many different people from many different backgrounds and in some cases they are task to come together and work as a cohesive unit. Sometime the mix is good and the team accomplished their task, other times the team dynamic is doom to fail right from the start. I will discuss what a team is and the reasons why some teams fail become a cohesive unit. I will also discuss what would I do or the recommendation I would give to build a stronger management team for Socaba.

First we must ask ourselves, what constitutes a team? A team is a collection of people, often drawn from diverse but related groups, assigned to perform a well-defined function for an organization or a project. Team members may be part-time participants of the team and have other primary responsibilities.

There are many reasons why groups/teams fail to achieve its common task. The reason Socaba failed to progress as a groups was due to the following items; neither partner had any experience of being an executive and neither partner fully understood taking on new executive employees would mean. According to the article Tom Scott, co-chairman of Nantucket Nectars, a juice company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “No matter what percentage of the company you own, you have to have the skills to be CEO-or else you shouldn't have the job because of the value you bring to the company, not for legal reasons. And you've got to prove that value every day- to investors, to others in the company, and to yourself.” Also they accepted the advice of the VP without fully exploring what the fix really entailed.

The next item that the partners had to realize when bringing in new employees, they have to check their attitudes at the door and make the new employees feel...