Reflective Essay: Team work

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Organization Behavior: HRM
Reflective Essay: Team work
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4/23/2019

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Contents
Reflection: Organizational Behaviour........................................................................................2
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Reflection...................................................................................................................................2
Effectiveness of my group.....................................................................................................2
The factors affected the group’s effectiveness.......................................................................3
What could have been done differently.................................................................................5
Self-assessment and learning about myself............................................................................5
SWOT analysis...................................................................................................................5
Big 5 personality traits test.................................................................................................6
Self-assessment (values, personality, interests and aptitude).............................................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................9

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Reflection: Organizational Behaviour
Introduction
This reflective journal is based on my self-reflection on the organizational behaviour
in the context of human resource management (HRM). In this context, as I have been a
member of a group working within HRMG 204 workshop for 6 weeks. Therefore, for
extracting the major learning from the HRM module I am reflecting upon the incidents and
important events of the workshop while working effectively in a group. In addition, I am
going to reflect over the effectiveness of my group during this period as well as analyse the
major factors which majorly affected my group’s efficacy (Pelegrini & Marie, 2014).
Besides, with the help of this reflective essay I will demonstrate a comprehensive learning
about myself.
In this era, HRM is a core segment of organizational behaviour which needs to be
supervised and handled in the most efficient way so that organizational outcomes can be
maximized at their best (Ogunyomi & Brunning, 2016). In this way, with the help of working
with the group during the HRM workshop I realized the importance of effective team-work
skill for the future career development.
Reflection
While working with the group during the HRM workshop, I learnt critical aspects of
learning at workplace for the organizational betterment as well as self-development
(Staggers, Garcia, & Nagelhout, 2008). In this context, in order to analyse the key factors
which have majorly affected my group’s effectiveness, and my learning about self, I have
used following ways to reflect upon my team-work:
Effectiveness of my group
In this section I am going to describe my group’s effectiveness while working during
the module. To do so, I would like to reflect upon the criteria for evaluating my team’s
effectiveness. Here, I have used the three dimensions of team-effectiveness in order to
successfully as well as fairly evaluate the efficacy of my own team. The criterions
dimensions are productive output, enhanced capability of inter dependence and group’s

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contribution to an individual well-being (Hirsch & McKenna, 2008). In this context, my
group has successfully demonstrated fulfilling the first dimension of the set criteria which is
productive output as our group has submitted each and every task as well as assignment
within the deadlines while attempting with full efforts. Now, for the second criteria of the
enhanced ability of inter dependence, my team was actually showed inter-dependence at a
large extent. Besides, my team’s cohesion, support and cooperative skills have contributed a
lot to the personal development as well as well-being of all of us team-members (Han &
Harms, 2010). For an example, one of us was not willing to give presentation while the whole
group was supposed to give one within a task. In this context, we all team-members tried to
interact and resolve his problems related to stage fear and lack of confidence. We all
supported him and hence he confidently gave the presentation within that task of the module
(Heyrup & Bente, 2009).
Source: (Berlin, Carlstrom, & Sandberg, 2012)
The factors affected the group’s effectiveness
On applying knowledge related to the theories, concepts as well as models within the
course for identifying and analysing the factors which have mostly facilitated and obstructed
my group’s effectiveness I gained useful knowledge and learning about the same. In this
context, such factors can be cohesiveness, decision-making, individual personalities,
communication, conflict management, group norms, team-size, team leadership, team
stability, team composition, boundary management activities as well as homogeneity