\"Teamwork\" Please respond to the following: Your professor assigned you to wor
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"Teamwork" Please respond to the following:
Your professor assigned you to work in a small group with three other students that you’ve never worked with before. She expects each person to equally participate and to complete the work by the designated deadline. However, two of the members are never available to meet and refuse to do any work.
How do you resolve this conflict, and why? Choose one of the following:
Explain that you need their help (emphasizing the need for equal participation)
Praise them for being in the group (providing motivation)
Criticize them for lack of participation (giving negative feedback)
Explanation / Answer
To resolve this conflict I would explain them that I need their help (emphasizing the need for equal participation).
This is because when my team mates will come to know that I need their help they may think to start working on the task, it has also been seen that in team work stating clearly with your team members that you require their help solves the conflict. With my explanation I would emphasize the importance of a team to them and would also tell that since we are in a team the success and failure lies in the hands of all of us and not in a single member's hand.
I would have added some other options in addition to the above stated one but since I had to choose only one option I will go with the above stated one.
The other two mentioned options have the less chance of success as praising team members for being in the group and doing nothing isn’t going to solve the conflict anyway and giving negative feedback has not shown very good track records while working in a team.
Teamwork is successful when all the team members know their roles and responsibilities and to solve the conflict I must focus on communicating this to my team members.
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