Analyzing Teamwork: Power, Influence, and Workplace Dynamics

This report delves into the teamwork processes within a group, focusing on power and influence dynamics in a workplace setting. The team, consisting of six members, undertook a week-long planning phase, incorporating conjecture, empirical implementation from a case study, and class facilitation. Individual contributions varied, highlighting cultural dimensions and communication barriers, but ultimately fostered critical thinking. The report connects group productivity with organizational behavior concepts like the Five C model, emphasizing coordination and conflict resolution. Lessons learned include the importance of a team leader and honest feedback. The analysis extends to a case study involving power dynamics and influence tactics, relating it to personal experiences and offering insights for improving workplace conditions. The facilitation plan involved the use of KAHOOT, with reflections on areas of improvement and student feedback incorporated. The report concludes with a peer evaluation, highlighting the team's strengths and areas for future development. Desklib provides access to this and many more solved assignments.

Teamwork processes (min of 800 words)
My Name:
Rajkamal
Student ID:
19373542
Members
involved:
Six(6)
Names:
Darren, Nicola,
Michelle, Mary, Birdy
and me (Raj).
Describe the planning undertaken by my team:
For the best facilitation accomplishment, my team members and I carried out one-week
planning before the deadline. Our topic being Power and Influence in the working
resident, we chose to use videos in attempting clarification on what the question was all
about and ways of designating our work to the remaining five members. It incorporated: a
Conjecture, Empirical implementation in the case study and class facilitation to improve in
understanding information The planning process became successful as a result of the
unity we shared as a team. Later, it became easy for me to converse with everyone in the
team for now we were used to one another. We then planned on holding another group
meeting to discuss everything and rehearse broadly as we finalized
Describe the contributions of individual team members:
Our participation as an individual among the team members crucially categorized as a
cultural dimension encountered by all during our work. Being a group consisting of
different nationalities, it was quite a challenge generally because everyone had their
contributions and ideas hence creating ambiguity. The good part is that it facilitated fast
and critical thinking since every member was conversant with their roles. Communication
being the necessary factor for our team meeting formed barriers within the group
because the discussion was not only between individuals hence creating more power and
influence. Bringing up members from different cultural ethnicities is good but will
eventually come to a point where the performance and contribution from each team
member have to be analysed.
Michelle, For instance, who was very useful in her work and always ready to dismantle
any challenge directed to her explained to us about the case study and shared her
opinions and thoughts with which we could borrow and use during our meeting. On the
other hand, Nicola and Darren were responsible for the idea of using the videos to explain

each concept. The facilitation activities based on the case study were Marys' and my own
idea. Work participation was effective. Hence, there was no room for free riding whereby
tasks were evenly allocated to every member to ensure work completion.
Linking our groups’ productivity with my perception about teamwork from learning OB:
Being a group of 6 members, not very large considering the task allocated to us in
preparation for our facilitation, we encountered various merits and demerits. For
instance, it consumed us time to harmonize roles and sort out the arising disputes. As a
result of the ability of the team members to work effectively, we can conclude that the
group was competent and eventually swathed up using the Five C model (McShane et al.
2017). With this replica, group association was inadequate since the deep pockets were
not well interfaced through our WhatsApp group, subsequently bringing down the level of
tweetup. Coordination was the underlying element because the squad was on stalk right
from the start all the way to the finale. It became effortless for the individual members' to
converse with the rest of the team participants and also timeshare information. In the
course of our facilitation, we were all comfortable with each other and free as a team.
Conflict resolution was also another factor we initiated to boost our tasks' efficiency and
effectiveness with less or no problems or challenges regardless of our cultural diversities
and other personal communication.
Lessons learned from working together and how to make teamwork better after being
assigned to a team in a workplace or college environment:
Working as a group is not new to me. One of the similarity I have observed in the
facilitation task and organizational behaviour is teamwork. For the facilitation to be
successful, a partnership is conjugal. Being in a group consisting of 5-6 members, the first
action we undertook was to identify a good team leader of which in our case we lacked
and this made the decision-making process difficult due to lack of the chain of command.
From this experience then I would always advocate on the importance of ever having a
team leader because after lacking one we encountered many problems concerning the

theories and activities because there was no one to guide and administer us. A leader is
the stronghold of a group by directing the team members’ activities to success just like
this saying goes “A ship cannot sail without a captain." Like in our case, I was not pleased
because I lacked the incentives to guide and lead my team to success responsibly. In
conclusion, I can comfortably recommend future groups always to identify a good team
leader during the initial stage to achieve good results.
If the facilitation was a formative exercise, our team could have deserved:
Our team would have deserved a 7/10 score resulting from the use of videos to explain
every theory. Through these videos, all the audience (students) got engaged and involved
through the entertainment that made them laugh.
Personally, as a team member, I would have deserved a 7/10 score. Being a teamwork
activity with equal distribution of tasks then I think we all delivered our parts well and did
our best.
As for the team members, I would like to recognize Michelle's endeavours, for
contributing more ideas and essential information for our plan.

Area Of Concern(minimum of 800 locutions)
Our sector evaluation was:
The teams' chosen concept of discussion was Power & Influence in a workplace setting,
considered a crucial factor in groups’ engagement. People encounter differing situations
in life through which they either get to influence or themselves get influenced through
power. It is through the facilitation exercise that we covered: Power and types of energy,
the contingencies of power and eight different types of influence tactics. We later
researched these concepts further through a case study to enhance better understanding.
My understanding in this section was:
Power is controlling other peoples’ behaviour by making them do things unwillingly.
Influence is the capacity to tamper with other people's views and opinions. Authority
drives people to accomplish work while influence tries to explain the necessity of that
work. From these definitions, I would not be wrong to say that Power and Influence can
be the two distinctive types of leadership in that You cannot possess one and lack the
other.
Topics relating to the case study:
During the report analysis, it was observed that Harry took the privilege of nominating
himself as the leader of the group not because he had the leadership qualities to perform
the role but because he was the only one who could serve for a more extended period in
the organisation.
Harry, being the only one to take control over that position then goes ahead to
instrumenting his thoughts and ignores Julies' opinions by not allowing for her
participation in any managerial discussions. It would at long last undermine and affect

the team performance. Julie would be very less competent and inefficient. Harrys'
behaviour well explained and influenced by power possession by serving in the firm for
years, so he had contacts from the inside and was involved in every decision making. Then
later Harry tries to influence Julie to only listening when they engaged in discussions
without expressing her ideas and thoughts by use of the eight power influencing tactics.
The topics relationship with a work or study situation I have encountered:
The discussion also contributes to our group facilitation whereby we needed to come up
with significant decisions. During the facilitation assembling, I brought up the mentimeter
plan where the audience could use portable mobile devices to ration their opinions and
the judgments which could have arrived at from on the questions we imposed to them.
However, Nicola and Mary were a bit idealess about the mentimeter. Using the
organizational behaviour theory, we used expert power to come up with the best
decisions for our activities. Later, Michelle had to choose between KAHOOT and
mentimeter bearing in mind that she was the one more equipped with knowledge and
experience than the other members (expert power). Eventually, she went for the
KAHOOT being the most entertaining and useful in such an atmosphere.
How to put this knowledge into use to upgrade a workplace condition in the future:
Setbacks are negative but will eventually help and guide from a repeat of the same.
Therefore, it is from this that I learned that for a prosperous team presentation, each
participant should be honest about their teammates work and try as much as possible not
to offer bias opinions about their work to evade and manage disputes. Overall, am
enlightened in that these setbacks will push me to supersede such problems in the
coming days. In accordance with the theory, I would describe the approach in two
dimensions, i.e., Power and Influence, both being useful in today’s business world. In a
business setting, Power is more relevant since inkling can lead to the influence of feelings

and end up with false judgements.
Our teams facilitation Approach (minimum 400 words)
Our facilitation plan description:
This plan initiated the game KAHOOT, which we decided not to divide the class into
groups but allowed them to play as individuals to ensure everyone was involved and
answered the questions according to their understanding. This activity was related to the
theories and its application to the case study. Our facilitation, therefore, was partially
effective because we were able to engage the audience even though, frankly being, the
planning was not very effective, but there is always room for improvement.
Areas of improvement after facilitation reflection:
Regarding team planning, they pointed out that our team was short of energy and
conversing was as well not useful when carrying out our activities. There were activities.
We would incorporate groups to increase interaction and discussion among groups, but
instead, we carried our individuals with the mind that all the students would participate.
Lecture point of view acknowledges that our team was energy deficient when presenting
our facilitation and that could be an area of concern for improvement even though the
overall facilitation performance was on the toe and still could have done better.
Student peers feedback included:
The gathered feedback from the student peers was, they did enjoy the activities we
presented even though our facilitation did not focus on our case study. However, they did

like and enjoyed the video's concept. We received large amounts of comments regarding
the real-life videos used as a great example to erase all doubts. The other feedbacks were
entirely concerning the use of KAHOOT and presenting to them the summary sheets of
our topic. I think the presentation could have been well-structured and more transparent
if we had integrated it into relating more to the report.
What I have learned after reflecting on this feedback:
Based on the exercise, I have learned that if it was possible, we could have taken more
time research on the case study before making a final judgement to accomplish the
facilitation plan. This could be made possible by rehearsing at least once. We did lack
depth, but from my perception, it was neither the best nor the worst. To wind up, we can
say that the facilitation assessment was average in accordance to peer assessment
evaluation where we discovered we had provided a good structure for presentation with
appropriate theories. Therefore, we integrate the feedback with a lot of seriousness and
the learning experience as a weapon for our future challenges.
Peer Evaluation (minimum of 600-800 words)
Week six(6) Subheading: Team Dynamics score: 9 /10
The facilitation' best part:
The teams’ presentation was very interesting and with quality performance. They very
well presented the concept and theory to the class. The idea of bind fold facilitation was a
great one to explaining how communication functions. For better content delivery, they
divided the entire class into three distinct groups to ensure they focused on everyone.
A description about what I learned:
At a personal level, I learned about the advantages and disadvantages of working as a
team. They explained the general outline of the team effectiveness model and later
discussed the four-team processes, i.e., development, norms, cohesion, and trust.

How one can apply this information in their workplace or college life:
In the future, one can apply these theories to evaluate their employees' needs.
Effective communication being a necessity for the development of an organization helps
the managers to perform the essential functions of management.
My feedback to this team:
This team deserved the highest score so far because their entire plan based on the report
was relatable to all the groups. This team presented one of the best results that attracted
for a good mark.
Week seven(7) Subtopic
:
stimulation score: 7.5/10
The outstanding thing about this facilitation:
Beer pong game took the best part of their facilitation. During their topics presentations,
the team made an effort to achieve the best results. Concepts and theories subjected to
the audience were clearly passed.
A description of what I learned:
They emphasized on Maslow’s’ theory and the Motivational theory. They explained how
these could be put to use at the workplace concerning the subject.
How one could apply this information in their workplace or college life:
In the future, one could always apply Maslow’s Hierarchy to determine my employees'
needs from those that should come first. A steady enterprise with transparent roles
provides a sense of belongingness to its team and also allows for the identification of
their acquirements. Employees' instruction agendas can look at the needs of social
relationships, self- dignity, and non – manual development achievable through Maslow's
Hierarchy of requirements.

My feedback to this team:
The teams’ facilitation was well undertaken. For instance, their activities were well
stabilized and structured even though they had a presentation challenge. The challenge
was their presentation was too detailed making it very lengthy.
Week ten(10) Heading
:
disputes score: 7 /10
The outstanding thing about this facilitation:
The Musical Chairs example was the prominent so far, very interesting and entertaining.
Their group activities were relatable to the case study though not very engaging to the
audience. Their main task was all about bringing together the correct answers hence
there was not much to discuss precisely when the answers provided were clear and right
to everyone. Generally, this team was well structured and finally managed to incorporate
appropriate theories.
A description of what I learned:
I learned that it is good always to keep off conflicts to understand each other's needs and
challenges the order for you to be potentially able to render help to them. The team was
so helpful, for instance, like when they answered a question I posed to them through
offering a great response about the same and further explaining about the topic making it
easier for me to understand. I learned that there are better ways to resolve conflicts like
solving, forcing and compromising.
How one could apply this information in their workplace or college life:
The plan can be of positive impact on me by equipping me with better conflict resolution
criteria and skills, both at the organizational and managerial level.
My feedback to this group:
This groups' facilitation lacked explanation on the theories. It could be better if they

began by briefly explaining these essential topics before the facilitation which was not
their case. However, their overall performance outstanding, and personally, I very much
enjoyed their facilitation.