Leadership Essay 2

217 ​Chapter 10 Listening to Out-Group Members

10.3 O​BSERVATIONAL ​E​XERCISE

Out-Groups

Purpose

1. ​To learn to recognize out-groups and how they form

2. ​To understand the role of out-groups in the leadership process

Directions

1. ​Your task in this exercise is to identify, observe, and analyze an actual ​out-group. ​This can be an out-group at your place of employment, in an informal group, in a class group, in a community group, or on a sports team.

2. ​For each of the questions below, write down what you observed in your experiences with out-groups.

Name of group: Basketball Game group 1

Identify and describe ​a group in which you observed an out-group.

Observations of out-group members’ actions: Help others with their issues.

Observations of the leader’s actions: Give the people some advise of what to do.

Questions

1. ​What is the identity of out-group members? How do they see themselves? ​Out-group members refers to those individuals in a group or an organization who do not identify themselves as part of the larger group. They see them unaccepted, alienated, and even disinterested in the group.

2. ​How were out-group members treated by the other members in the group? ​My out-group knew what to do for the other members that having trouble with. The out-group help their members and be show a lot empathy to others.

3. ​What is the most challenging aspect of trying to deal with members of this out-group? ​The most challenging dealing with members of this ouut-group would be paying attention to the one that doesn’t understand anything that we would help them reach their goals.

4. ​What does the leader need to do to integrate the out-group members into the larger group? ​We need to show a lot of empathy with others.