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  • Essay / The Five Stage Model of Group Development - 1951

    AnalysisIn this reflection report, I will explain our group situations by adopting the five stage model of group development and then using other theories or research to analyze situations.1. The Five Stage Model of Group Development Figure 1: The Five Stage Model Source: Adapted from Tuckman's theory, it suggests five stages of group development, namely forming, storming, normalizing, executing and deferment (Tuckman, 1965 and Tuckman and Jessen, 1977). During the first four stages, the model demonstrates that group bonding can be developed by joining the goal or task and then adjourns the stage once the task is completed. Recently, the situation of SEEDS is in a transformation process from the Storming stage to the Norming stage. Training Stage The training of SEEDS took place during an onboarding program and our members had a strong goal to be the winner of the marketing stimulation game. At that time, everyone was excited to be part of the team, excited about the work ahead, and happy with the group's performance. Almost all of our members fully intended to understand each other, to know each other. I thought there were two main reasons that made the group work environment enjoyable from weeks one to six. One was our success in marketing case studies and the other was that all members respected our group charter (Appendix 1). However, I encountered a slight problem, caused by critical time management and a language barrier, with some members arguing ignorance of suggestions from non-native speakers. This was before our situation reached the stage of assault. Assault stage The conflict arose from different ambitions within SEEDS, as most of our members always arrived in the middle of paper......situations occurred due to the lack of preparation of the members of the group, no real leader, unclear communication and task and relationship conflicts. The expectancy theory of motivation (Vroom, 1964) proposes that the individual is encouraged to act if there is an expected outcome. In this case, an effort-performance relationship was introduced. As mentioned above, the marketing case studies had no branding, so person A always missed the marketing meeting accusing that they should focus on group work, and some of our members were doing the marketing case without paying attention to it. However, the rest of the group believed that case studies could provide them with the marketing experiences needed to prepare them for the real world of business. So they wanted to study hard in all aspects. I thought that different points of view might create an inconvenient work environment and conflicts within our group..