Group Management and Development Project - NZDB Level 5 Leadership

This project focuses on group management and development within an organizational context, specifically for the New Zealand Diploma in Business (Level 5). It covers various aspects of team dynamics, including the roles and responsibilities within a team, the stages of group development (forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning), and the processes involved in facilitating, motivating, communicating, and making decisions within a group. The project highlights the importance of synchronised procedures for effective group operation and emphasizes how efficient group management can lead to higher performance and profitability. The analysis includes considerations for training and development needs, resource allocation, performance recognition, and ethical implementation of power, drawing upon leadership and management principles to foster a cohesive and productive team environment. The assignment uses the example of Foodstuffs to target a specific position with roles and duties.

Group ManagementFoodstuffsStudent Name:Student ID:

Targeted Position
Logistics
Team
Finance
and
Accoun
ts
Marketin
g and
promotio
n
Sales
and
consume
r
relation
Productio
n

Responsibilities
Logistics
Team
Finance
and
accounts
Marketing
and
promotion
Sales and
consumer
relation
Production
Handling Supply and distribution of
packages
Quality transportation under legitimate
operation
Formulating appropriate price strategy
and profit
Budget planning and Estimation
Advertising of the brand and the products
Conducting market research and generate
report
Maintain efficient consumer relationship
Communicate with buyers to influence
decision
Packaging, maintaining, and internal
goods flow
Managing effective production cycle

Chosen
Position
Roles and
duties
•Influencing the consumer behaviour
•Guide consumers to chose desired
product
•Leading sales team with strong
integrity and cooperativeness
•Helping team member to chose write
strategy
•Taking care of post purchase consumer
Sales and consumer relation
executive

Group Development Process
• Initiate
Agreeme
nt
• Formulat
ing
purpose
• Choosing
direction
Forming
• Conflict
negotiatio
n
• Power
Handling
• Coaching
Storming • Resource
Allocation
• Finalising
roles and
responsibiliti
es
Norming
• Executio
n with
accuracy
• Focusing
on
Objective
s
Performi
ng • Achievin
g Goals
• Recognitio
n
• Evaluatio
n
Adjournin
g

Group Development Phase

Process of Facilitate
•Analyse the training and development
needs
•Finding out the strength and weakness of
workers (Bolden, 2016)
•Providing appropriate power to
implement plan
•Effective resource allocation in
Marketing and Sales

Process of Motivate
•Performance recognition and KPI
utilisation
•Monetary and Non-Monetary Reward
•Promising appraisal
•Incorporating internal recruitment
process
•Adequate work-life balance
•Ethical implementation of power

Process of Communciate
•Regular feedback collection from
Leaders
•Conduct monthly survey on ground
level employees
•Operating complaint handling and
supporting (Shields et al., 2015)
Social media based virtual
communication

Making Decision
•Implementing situational leadership
•Prioritising employee opinions
(Bolden, 2016)
•Taking care of employee expectations
•Absence of forceful acknowledgement
•Decision across the bounded
awareness
•Heuristics strategies

Conclusion
•Implementation group operation needs
multiple synchronised procedures to develop
and sustain operational integrity.
• Efficient group management can cause
higher performance level that can lead to high
profitability.

Refernces
•Bolden, R. (2016). Leadership, management and
organisational development. In Gower handbook
of leadership and management development (pp.
143-158). Routledge.
•Shields, J., Brown, M., Kaine, S., Dolle-Samuel,
C., North-Samardzic, A., McLean, P., ... &
Plimmer, G. (2015). Managing Employee
Performance & Reward: Concepts, Practices,
Strategies. Cambridge University Press.