Bruce Wayne Tuckman's Stages Of Group Development

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1. OBJECTIVES No one can survive alone; we were born with invisible biological binding and the characteristic spirit cohesion of human society. Imagine a world with 7 billion people by 2014, the first picture comes into your mind is a colorful image of nameless people, unknown faces and they seems busy solving their own problems, but the connections among them are quite faint. But when you think about a smaller scale such as a family, your brain immediately begins to build up the image of a father, mother, brother and sister. They play different roles in a family, they're different ages, but in this scale we understand more clearly why they are together and mounted in a small group of social-called family. With a similar …show more content…

A working group also experienced the development phases of its own, depending on the scale, the bigger the more complicated, and I believe Tuckman's model is the standard for the study of the stages of team development work. Bruce Wayne Tuckman (born 1938) has carried out research Into the theory of group dynamics. In 1965, he published one of his Theories Called "Tuckman's stages of group development." In 1977, he added a fifth stage named adjourning. He tried to introduce vài kinds of Theories like Tuckman's Teamwork Theory. According to the Tuckman's Teamwork Theory there are four phases of group development: Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing and Adjourning. …show more content…

Interaction may or may not take place, but for the most part each individual in what is at this stage just a “nominal” group will be concerned with building his or her own private fantasies about what it will be like, or what they hope it will be like. Decisions might be made about the extent to which they will be a part of the group, whether they will arrive on time or not, how they will behave if the others do this or that, and so forth. In this article we only focus on 5 main stages of the model. (2) Based on actual data, I will put them to the framework of Tuckman’s model of Group’s Development, and analyze these objectives: • Forming stage: Important criteria of selecting group members. • During the Storming stage: what should we do to resolve the conflict between the members, how to overcome basic problems. Besides that giving opinions and listening to others is also a key factor to be analyzed. • We will observe how the overall value of a team is formed and how the core elements to maintain that stability in Norming

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