Reflective Report on Group Work

Reflective Report
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Reflective essay on group work
In the current study, reflection is presented which is based upon own personal
experience which a scholar perform while conducting team work for Organisational
Behaviour in an International Context’ and what I can learn from it for parallel circumstances
and jobs in the forthcoming. To set an approach for this reflective practice, I present the team
development model by Tuckman and Jensen (1977) in the report for stating team
development and process of group working.
It is counted as renowned perfect to analyse and know the procedure of group
development. It describe fiver different stages such that forming, storming, norming,
performing and adjourning phase. Sometimes phases can be overleaping (Dennis, Garfield
and Reinicke, 2019). I consider the current model by Bruce Wayne Tuckman as a valuable
approach to classify and making understandable my involvements within the virtual team
because it broaches and classifies particularly the feelings and resulting behaviour of the
group members during different stages.
Forming –Under this process, each and every team members share their own opinion
within a discussion and then entire team is agreed on the specific task in which every member
is ready to perform on a research. Then set date and time in order to finish the same. When
only one group member and I had finished our work by the deadline I reminded the others
several times to send theirs as well.
Storming - During this phase I noticed that two of my group members did not have
any knowledge about academic research, so I tried to explain them the basics of research
(Guttenberg, 2020). Over the time these efforts decreased and I started to look for alternative
ways to achieve progress. Due to this I felt frustrated and helpless. I wanted to ensure that
they were able to contribute to the group work. This struggle became little when I noticed
that it did not have success because the lack of knowledge was so severe. Due to this, my
motivation to support them decreased when I got the feeling that the three group members did
not make efforts to increase their skills in order to add to the team work. I recognized that this
even made me angry because it did not meet my values and expectations of work attitudes
within a team. This frustration was also produced by the lack of development and herd my
performance, which can be related to Tuchman’s account of the storming stage
Norming - After the first experiences in the storming phase everyone in the team was
clearer about the each other approaches. This associated to Tuckman’s description of the
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