Group Organization and Dynamics

Learning’s from Class Activity

Identify Parent, Adult and Child ego state:

• This was the first activity held in class and it was about identifying different ego states in different situations.

• Exploring one’s own personality through these three ego states was a home assignment and i found myself scoring high on Adult ego state and very low on rebellious child.

• This activity essentially helped me in learning transactional analysis. I learnt how three ego states describe complicated process running in the back of our mind and in analyzing our day to day communication process.

Johari Window and FIRO-B Relation Analysis:

• Johari window is a feedback model used to understand one’s own awareness. As per the model, my score was on the border of open and hidden quadrant.

• The model suggested that in order to move in open quadrant I should open myself more so that people knew more about me.

• FIRO – B analysis was a home assignment which helped me in understanding my personality traits. My score depicted that I scored moderate on both e and on w, which meant I was neither over social or under social nor submissive or rebellious

Desert survival exercise

• It was a class activity for examining individual and team effectiveness.

• Initially the difference between my score and my group members score was very high. It was after the brainstorming discussion my score and overall group’s score were largely similar.

• My learning from this activity was that as future leaders and managers of this country we will be faced with such similar situations in an organization. This activity taught me the importance of team effectiveness and impact of making right decisions at the right time.

• I learnt how Team Effectiveness helps...

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...nagement is required to improve existing process, and to enable employees to learn new sets of skills, behaviour etc

Organization structure

• Effectiveness can be increased by using multiple organizational structures. Companies may switch from one type of organizational structure to another to be more effective. Type of organization structure also depends on the number of employees in the organization, industry, services offered etc.

Learning’s from Group Assignment

I could relate our group assignment to various group dynamics theories learned in the entire course. I could experience how our group moved through difference stages of group formation, the importance of task identity, team role, cohesiveness etc. The group assignment was like a practical approach of learning and experiencing the various concepts and theories learnt through case discussions.