Reflective Essay on Team Work Experience in Class

Running Head: TEAM WORK EXPERIENCE 0
Reflective Essay
Experience During Group Work in Class
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1/12/2019

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Contents
Reflective Essay.........................................................................................................................2
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
My Experience during Group Work..........................................................................................2
Group Formation....................................................................................................................2
Storming.................................................................................................................................3
Norming.................................................................................................................................3
Performing..............................................................................................................................4
Adjourning.............................................................................................................................4
Analysis of my experience.........................................................................................................5
Application of my experience to organization's environment....................................................6
Application of OB theories........................................................................................................7
Theories of Intelligence..........................................................................................................7
Theories of Motivation...........................................................................................................8
Theories of Attitudes and Behaviour.....................................................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9

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Reflective Essay
Introduction
The reflective journal is based on my experience while working with my group in class and it
will allow me to learn as well as reflect during future career development by using my
experiences acquired during group work in class. Besides, I will analyse my experiences and
learning as well in the context of organizational behaviour. My analysis of the group
experiences will include incidences, why those incidences happened, what was the learning
from them, and what could have been done differently for making the situation better.
Furthermore, as I have learnt many things from working in a team for the organizational
behaviour (OB) project hence my reflection will contain an application of my experiences to
organization’s environment and if those experiences would have been occurred in an
organization then what should have been done.
Moreover, I will apply organizational behavioural theories into my experiences of group
work or team work. Finally, this reflective essay will provide useful theories, policies as well
as suggested practices which can be used to engender further success as well as mitigate such
problems in future. In this way, with the help of (Australis College, 2018), I learnt that
reflective practice is an important tool to analyse my past experiences and failures in a way
that it can help for the future development from the personal as well as professional
perspective (Australis College, 2018). Thus, I am here reflecting my team-work with my
group while working in the class for the organizational behaviour assignment.
My Experience during Group Work
Now, I have experienced that our group had so many different stages of feelings while
working on the group project. For instance, apart from group formation, there were other
stages of our group learning includes storming, norming, performing and adjourning.
Group Formation
My experiences during group work contain many things like group formation technique while
forming the group. I got to know about this five-stage model given by Bruce Tuckman in the
year 1965 which was containing five steps for developing a group formation. In this way, my

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experience about group formation was amazing as that group formation helped my group for
accomplishing our assignment. Moreover, I did not face any difficulty during interacting with
the group members because fortunately I was assigned a group whose members were already
familiar with me as most of us were good friends. Additionally, team work with my group
built my character as well as provided exclusive learning into so many aspects. I would like
to narrate a great experience of my team-work during organizational behaviour assignment
that my group has appointed me as a leader as they found required leadership skills in my
character. Besides, my team members were so intelligent as well as polite that they helped me
in each and every task related to our task as well as group report. As we know that
technology advancement influencing collaboration and communication considerably
currently hence we all group members chose Facebook messenger and Google Drive link for
sharing and storing info regarding our group project (Management Study Guide, 2017).
Hence, the idea of introducing these technologies into our team work helped all of us and
made our work easy from the efficiency as well as timeline perspective.
Storming
This stage of our group work was the storming stage and during this stage our team moved
into the storming stage, where we all started to ambition and execute our missions towards
the final stage from the forming stage. In my opinion, it is the stage where most of the groups
fail due to lack of clarity and enthusiasm for the work. This stage was there in our group
project because of the reason that there was certainly a conflict amid team members' natural
working styles which was requiring our group storming in order to successfully execute
group project. In this context, as I have already mentioned that I was having a good chemistry
with my rest of the team members as we all used to be friends earlier than becoming team
mates hence I contributed a lot to minimizing the conflicts due to different opinions among
my team. According to five stage model of Tuckman’s group development, the stage of
storming is very important from the perspective of building base of the group work as well as
it is vital to strengthen bonding among the team members.
Norming
Further then, during norming stage of our team project team moved into the progressive
stage. As per the (Jones, 2013), it is the stage when team members take initiative to solve
their differences, raise the value of team members' strengths, as well as respect the authority
of the leader. Likewise, our group members also tried their best to resolve issues with each