Organizational Behavior and Leadership Styles Reflective Report

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND LEADERSHIP STYLES
Reflective Report
An unusual assignment, which was given to us by the Organizational Behavior and Leadership
styles subject respected instructor Dr. Sulafa Badi. This assignment is to make a (12) minutes video
to reflect some theories we discussed in this subject, and to demonstrate them on the real-life
employee in the daily work in the company. In this report we will write how we worked together as
a team to produce this video.
We constructed this report based on The Reflective
Cycle Theory by Graham Gibbs, as from our point
of view, it stimulates to think systematically about
the phases of the report experience. Therefore, we
used its stages (as shown in the side photo)(Gibbs,
1988) to structure this reflection Report. Moreover,
the reflective cycle allows us to express and
evaluate our analyses clearly about this experience
as a whole.
Accordingly, our mission started with:
(1) Action Plan Stage
Based on the Five-Stage Model of Group Development, this stage is Forming; where we formed a
team of four different ages and different nationality males, based on our presence beside each other
in the class at the time of forming the groups, our group members are: Obaid Al Shaali (as the
leader of the group), Mohammad Saqr, Ali Al Farsi and Marwan Al Mulla, the creative member in
our group.
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Being randomly chosen to be a team without a previous knowledge of each other, created a big
challenge to summon all the efforts to perform efficiently in the same direction.
It’s been argued that “ What is needed is not a well-balanced individuals , but individuals who
balance well with each other “ (Belbin, 1994) This requires a firm plan with clear instruction to
follow in order to achieve our target , which we agreed on it together , to film a creative video about
the organization behavior and leadership styles theory , and document the process in a reflective
report . According to the Belbin’s team roles model, the team role can be divided into three main
categories that are Action oriented goal, People oriented goal and thought oriented goal. Therefore
as per this method the team has been subdivided in accordance to the expertise and abilities of the
team members. In this team division Obaid Al Shaali acted as the finisher, Mohammad Saqr took
the responsibilities of a coordinator, Ali Al Farsi had the role of inventor and Marwan Al Mulla
performed as a creative person among us. Therefore, keeping this target on mind, we referred on
Belbin theory of Team roles, to determine each personnel traits to give the suitable role for each
member to guarantee achieving the results, each member of the groups score indicated the
following (Test results are included at the end of this report):
(2) Description Stage
At this stage we had to put our plan and efforts into action and the Storming stage has begun, a
kick-off meeting is conducted to deploy the duties of each member, which was a complicated at the
beginning.
After referring to the team roles above and the
Myers-Briggs personality type indicator, the conflict
started to fade, as we distributed the wok duties
based on each member nature and personality traits.
For filming the video, we agreed to make it a
responsibility of Team (1), Ali and Marwan, as this
requires creativity, originality and coordination.
Finally the test result suggested that Ali is an
inventor and Marwan is a creative person among all the members.
While Obaid and Mohammad in team (2), are to support, edit the video output for the final version
and reflect the process in the report, which is a job required coordination and finisher and they can
give their best performance as finisher and coordinator as per the test results. After shooting the
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video we need to give a final touch to present it in a well manner. That is the reason why we have
given the role of coordinator and finisher to Obaid and Mohammed.
(3) Feeling Stage
At this stage the Norming started between the group members as everything started to fall out in
place and each team took responsibility to finish his part of the assignment with supervision from
the team leader (Pinder 2014). In this stage of development, the group members can start to build a
group according to the previously given role. In this stage of development, all the members of the
teams work together as a team and try to achieve their pre-defined goals as per the previous
discussion.
The first step was to summon our personal opinions about the theories discussed in the lectures to
produce a scenario and characters to build the video plot on.
We agreed that the video should deliver the idea simply and efficiently through a real-life situation
that everyone passed in through his or her life. The main character (Faiz) is a fresh graduate student,
who has been recruiting recently in a job, and what are the difficulties that he faced through his
work and how these difficulties negatively affected his performance, also we discussed in this
video, how applying the suitable theory e talked about in the lecture will improve his performance
and the overall work environment (Crawford and LePine 2013).
Recruiting the director and the camera man was the second step, which might be considered as a
weak point in this process due to lack of experience in this field. However, we overcome this by
taking more time to film all and judge the result, after the filming took place in the BUID
undergraduate section.
(4) Evaluation Stage
We can call this stage the Performing as we had built the overall video in this stage with the help of
all the team members. This step is very much crucial as there was a chance of confliction among
the team and as well as among the members of the team. Mohammad Saqr has successfully
handled the situations related to the motivations of the team members. As per Maslow’s motivation
theory the steps of human motivations based on the pyramid like structure that is known as
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