Question: Please answer 1a & 1b based on the provided scenario Read the following scenario and answer the questions belew. Five teans in Company X are

Please answer 1a & 1b based on the provided scenario Please answer 1a & 1b based on the provided scenario Read the
following scenario and answer the questions belew. Five teans in Company X

Read the following scenario and answer the questions belew. Five teans in Company X are given appreximately four weeks to research and prepare a proposal ea how to impreve company sales. The team with the best proposal will be treated to an all-espenses paid weekend at fandals Resort. However, management is insistent that the propocal be a team initiative. Davld, lane. Ela, Robert and sharon are randoenly assigned to Team 3. During their first, hourdong team meetine before they even introduce themselves, sharon and Robert spend 10 minutes complaining abvut the timse frame gren by management. After the flrst 10 minutes of meeting time, Danld starts 'playing on' his phone. He says nothing for the entire meeting. 45 minutes later, the team is still trying to settle on a research/ marketing direction. During the last is miewites of meting time, Robert tries to convince the group that they should sugsest that Company X holds a community falf where generewas samples are given out to the public. Sharon wanted to do more research on the efficacy of suxh an approach and suggests that thry all give some esere thought to the issue and that at the next meeting they each report en their research. fane is eicited by fobert's idea. She attends the same church as he dees, and she knows him to be a forward thinking man. For the entire mecting Elaa has sat there quietly, nodding and smiline as she listens to her teammates. A the end of the meeting sharon informs the team that the next meeting will be beld at her house at 4:15pm. on the follonsing Monday. David makes what sounils like grumbling noises but says nothing to Sharun: The following Monday, after waitieg for David until4 4:30, Sharun decides to start wichout him. Robert aprees. He is ready to plas the community fair and hatds eut an draft document of his peopecal. Sharon wants to discuss ber research. She has made a 10 slide PowerPoint gresentation eotlinime five possble directions. Elsa says nothing An arguatent envees between Robert and Sharen. Jane inserrapts to ay that she has to leave now because she had forpotten that it was her tarn to pick up ber chise at the day care by 5:00. She leaves before a dection is reached. With nwo out of the five members abuent. Robert supzests that they break for the day. The next merting as sheduled to be held at Repert's house, same time, the neat Moeday. Alefore the next meeting Robert coavinces lane that a community fair is the way to go. Together, they pot together a detailed proposal. Sharon, meamehlle, confront David about his absence. She thes discovers that David speaks very little English and that at the first meeting, he was using Google Trundate on his phone to loecp up with the conversation. No ese knows that Elsa's elderly parent has fallen ill and that as an sely child. Elsa worries about how she will cope with this dotnestic crits and the demands of this new project. At the next meeting all team members were present. Robert informs the group that he aed Jane have decided to da the eommunity fair and that they have prodeced a mote decalled propesal that now requires sign-off ty the team before taking is to managrment, Sharen is incensed by Robert's high-handedness and iasists that more resiarch be done. In halting English, David sides with Robert and Jane on the eommunity Gair initiative. Z3sa. distracted by the pressure of her domestic situation, does not take any part in the discussion. However. when Sharen attempts to draw her in. Ela agrees that more research needs to be done. Worried about her contritutiod to the team in the whole project, Elsa believes that an extra week will buy ber time, The meeting ends on a very vour neae. The plan is for the team to meet again the following Monday evening at the company/s boardroom to produce a final documebt. David does not show up to the final team meeting. Dea now sides with Robert and fane en the coesmunity fair initiative but does not make any contribution to the draft proposal. Sharon insists that more research should hwe been done and declares that she disagrees with the comntanity fair initiative. The deadline for submissioe of the project proposal is en Friday of that week. 1. The above scenario depicts a situation of team conflict emerging from poor communication and a misunderstanding of team roles (a) Identify the type (s) of team members and the cause(s) of the conflict, taking care to link the conflict to the ideas presented in the powerpoint slide presentation entitled "Team Work, Feb. 2023" (Found in Resources, Week 5) [60 points] (b) Suggest TWO strategies that could have been implemented to resolve the problems you've identified, in order for Team 3 to comply with management's remit and deadline. [40 points]

Step by Step Solution

There are 3 Steps involved in it

1 Expert Approved Answer
Step: 1 Unlock blur-text-image
Question Has Been Solved by an Expert!

Get step-by-step solutions from verified subject matter experts

Step: 2 Unlock
Step: 3 Unlock

Students Have Also Explored These Related General Management Questions!