HRM 742 Capstone Assignment

Case One Teamwork

Martha is a Manager of IT who was assigned 10 employees to work as part of a team. Martha has lots of experience in project management, but it is her first time leading a team. She contacted each person on the team individually and told them what they needed to do - she left the deadline up to them. For some reason, after a month of time, the team was not responding how she thought they would, there was little cooperation and some members were asking to leave the team altogether while two other members were arguing often. Martha was distraught and could not figure out what went wrong.

1. With your knowledge of Teams from the course, list what went wrong in this scenario. (4 marks)
2. Outline in detail what you would advise Martha to do to fix this situation and complete the project. (6 marks)