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MANAGING TEAM AND GROUPS

Managing team and groups

Francisco Hernandez

Abstract

This paper deals with the analysis of differentiating team with group. The paper discusses how team thinking and group thinking differentiates in perspective, efficiency and outcome of the task. The traits of effective leadership in terms of multi culturalism and operational leg is also discussed in this report.

Introduction

Team and Group seems to be synonyms but they possess a vast difference in the operational leg, work efficiency and outcome of the task. The team work and group work have a vast line between them in terms of carrying out the task. The main difference between a group and a team is the unity among them (Eikenberry, 2015). Group initially is a gathering of people following a defined set of rules in order to achieve the assigned task. But on the other hand team is a group of people not only following the rules but also creating a sense of unity among each other in order to carry out the highest efficiency for the task (David W. Parker, 2015).

Difference between Team and Group

In order to understand the difference between a group and a team we need to discuss the meaning of both the terms. A group initiates when a group of people try to achieve a single unified goal by only following a set of rules (Eikenberry, 2015). However in order to form a team it requires a higher commitment by the people creating a sense of unity, help and not only following the rules but also supporting others in order to not only fulfill the goal but also with the highest efficiency.

· The accountability among team and group is what makes them different from each other. In a group the accountability lies on people with individuality but in a team there is a collective sense of accountability causing a higher efficiency among the participants (Neck, 1994).

· The team collectively works to achieve the organizational goals however, the group try to achieve the same goals but on an individual level decreasing the efficiency overall.

· A group is led by an individual getting all of the decisions on one shoulder however, a team is led by collective leadership making everyone an important part.

· In a groups there is an absence of interdependency over each other causing individuality in the work process however a team has interdependency causing the achievement of goal with efficiency and in a timely manner (David W. Parker, 2015).

Difference between Team think and Group think

· The team works in an environment containing more of an informal nature allowing participants to be more convenient in expressing their perspectives but in a group there is more of a formal environment making the participants hesitant of expressing their views (Neck, 1994).

· Groupthink is something in which the participants tend to think in the same manner totally ignoring the individual presence and thoughts but on the other hand team think allows a collective thinking process and being open to everyone’s views and thinking.

· Group think contains more of an observation timeline making the participants to observe and change themselves according to others but team think provides a sense of presence in the group and being valued of their effort.

Process of evolving a group into team

The conversion of a group into a team doesn’t have any pre-defined rules or steps. However, there exists some points that can be used in implementing the traits of team work in a group allowing a conversion (Baptist, 2015). The below mentioned points can be considered:

· If the leader allows the participants of a group to be known of the values and importance by working with unity can cause a high efficiency.

· To allow the individuals know of their respective duties and the importance of their duties for others and vice versa.

· By allowing an increment in the interdependency between the group can allow a sense of collective and unified working and realizing the importance of others. (Eikenberry, 2015).

· By demoralizing the formalities among the group can also allow the participants to be more convenient working together causing a sense of collectivity.

Effective leadership styles for diverse cultural groups

Due to an increase in Globalization process there exists a high cultural diversity among the institutions demanding a huge tolerance of people in working collectively. There exists much probability that the group would contain persons with different cultural background and in order to achieve the highest efficiency the leader should be well equipped with the goal of creating unity among them (Eikenberry, 2015). However, the leader should possess the following leadership qualities to tackle the cultural diversity problem:

· The most important point to be taken care of is participation. The leader should provide the opportunity to let everyone be part of the group for completing the task by speaking their minds and providing a platform allowing everyone to participate which will create a sense of importance of being in the group in the individually and collectively.

· Leaders should also be of the view in providing the group with a supportive culture which will help them in ending the discrimination and motivating the participants on an individual level.

· Training should be carried out for the people in order to acknowledge them of the importance of diverse culture in group efficiency (Kanki, 2019).

Effective leadership styles

This part deals with the general leadership styles that should be possessed by the leader in order to execute highest efficiency from the group or team.

· The leader should not emit any sign favoritism within the group. This will initiate a sense of isolation among the participants causing a huge inefficiency in the operations of the task. Instead the leader should be open to all and be supportive of each and every person in the group (Baptist, 2015).

· The leader should be passing out feedbacks to the participants regularly mainly involving his attributes but also discussing how the things could be done better.

· The leader should have an open door policy as it will create a sense of equality among the people and it will also be easier in communication with the leader.

· Being a leader involves creating an example. The leader should be setting an example of carrying out the tasks at which the participants can look upon to. This will create an image of effective leadership among the minds of people (Baptist, 2015).

Conclusion

A team and a group differs a lot in term of efficiency, goal achieving and outcomes of the tasks. The team is more of a united platform for the people to work on collectively however group focuses more on individuality. A team provides more importance e to the work of a participant than the group. However, a group can be converted to team if the leader possess tolerance for culturally diverse group and provide equal importance to each individual of the group.

Holocaust’s Hannah Senesh

Hannah Senesh originally known as Hannah Szenes was a Jewish lady born in July 1921 in Budapest by a Hungarian Jewish family that was well recognized and relatively wealthy. Her father was a play and newspaper column writer. Hanna developed interest in writing because of the environment she grew up in and began writing poems at the age of six. She actually began recording a diary when she was 13 thirteen years old. It was in her high school times when Hannah developed interest in studying more concerning her Jewish culture and customs. At this time Israel was still under the British administration as part of Palestine.

While in Palestine, Hanna would write letters to her mother some of which she wrote in poet form expressing explicitly her daily life in Palestine. Around this time Hungarian anti-Semitic attitude began to occur and more strict laws were enacted. Jews in professions were thrown out of their jobs. Actually, Hanna’s brother left for France when he failed to join college due to the prevailing obstructions. Her family demonstrated some form of rebellion to the laws. Anti-Semitism spread throughout Europe and to be safe one had to go to the paces that were inhabited by Jewish only.

As the war continued, Hanna’s family split and could no longer hear from each other. The security state in Hungary deteriorated and the Jews in Palestine were obliged to help and mitigate the horrors and killings that were happening in the Nazi-occupied Europe locations.

Hanna’s attempt to get her mother out of Hungary but she did not succeed. When she failed, she decided to go back to Hungary and arrange a resistance movement in 1942. Hanna later joined Hagana which was a Jewish military to continue with the fight. The Brits government in retaliation, searched for volunteers to join the resistance movement. Hanna together with thirty other volunteers risked their lives to rescue the Jewish people. They embarked on parachuting training after which they would attack the enemies. Hanna was kept in charge of radio communications.

Hanna’s last picture was taken while she was preparing for her Yugoslavian mission in March 14 1944. At that time her brother had arrived in Palestine ad they met after quite a long period of time. Five days later, the German troops arrived in Hungary and just before Hanna had managed to organize a resistance movement. The German troops influenced the Arrow Crossers to rob and kill Jews. Jews were restricted form working and even leaving their houses. They were sent to ghettos. There were over 4,000 Jewish victims.

Hannah decided to cross the border from Palestine to Hungary which was actually a dangerous but brave act. At that time, she left behind a poem “Blessed is the Match” to her fellow parachutists. Hannah was then caught and even after being tortured and brutally beaten, she refused to disclose the names of other parachutists.

Hannah and her mother were both taken to jail. Her mother was released later. Hannah would entertain her inmates, teaching them Hebrew and telling them about Palestine. At this time, the arrow crossers took over Hungary but later the soviets came into the country in October 1944. There seemed to be hope for Hannah’s release which never happened. Hannah was still recording her diary. Hannah was accused of treason andin November 1944, she was executed by a firing squad and she died an Israel heroine. Her poems and artistic works were published in Hebrew.

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