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Organizational behavior is a topic that describes the behaviors of employees within a workplace. In this particular case, organizational behavior methods were widely described due to the multiple issues within this case. This case was overall a failure due to team development and interdependence. The interdependence between Shalini, Sara, Philly, and Rishi was not very cohesive and therefore made their behaviors reflect badly. With the downfall in interdependence and also in development, it is important to look further into other aspects as to why this team did not work well together.

From the beginning of the case, FIS seemed to have started off on the wrong foot. Although the team members chosen for this project had many qualifications as to why they were put on one team, it was not all that effective at the end of the project. The FIS project team in this case seemed to have failed during the forming stage of team development. It was during this stage were the FIS team should have really tried to understand their positions within the team. Instead, the team did not form well because they immediately grouped themselves into smaller groups amongst themselves. This affected the team interdependence in a major way because the interdependence was not successfully met. With this particular project team, the interdependence needed to be comprehensive between one another. There needed to be high interactions among each team member to successfully finish the project.

After the failure of the forming phase and then the interdependence, it seemed as though the team became stuck within the storming phase of development. Therefore, it made the norming, performing, and adjourning stages unreachable. The failure in the forming stage was ev...

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...cially when her job was put at risk. The stressors she endured along with Shalini and the other team members were daily hassles caused by the team leader, Rishi and Philly, the project manager. Throughout this project, it became easy to see that there was little motivation within this team. There seemed to be no higher level of engagement due to the refusal to work as a team. A possible fix to that problem could have been to incorporate a few group activities at the beginning of the project. If activities were incorporated they could helped the team understand their roles as team players, instead of allowing the members to separate themselves from others.

Overall, the job performance of this project was extremely poor in how the members did not work together as they should have. The poor job performance of this team affected the organizational commitment to FIS.