Addressing the Challenges of Groups and Teams

The Organizational Leadership course covers various human behavioral aspects that may affect the whole organizational behavior. The human behavior is hard to define because it varies according to an individual, their personality, situation, emotions, perceived mood, and more. For these reasons organizations form a set of accepted mode of communication, collaboration, and conflict resolution methods to create unified process throughout the organization. This assignment will present a training plan that the Team D convened and collaborated to apply uniformly in a hypothetical organization. This training plan will aim to depict the effectiveness of working in groups and teams. Another objective of the training plan is to address the challenges and benefits of collaboration, conflict management, and communication in an organization. This plan that the Team D has designed will also be applied on a failed organization, to explain how the plan would have helped the organization with its challenges.
Team D collaborated and came up with a cohesive training plan for an organization that is undergoing expansion in the global market. The expansion calls in for more hiring. Thus the training plan should inculcate various aspects to encourage team spirit between the old and new employees. The plan constitutes of different ideas to make the new hire process effective. The new hire process should consist of welcome and benefit package, conflict management or open-door policy details, code-of-conduct, and mission statement. These materials will provide a better picture to the new employee by establishing, what to expect from the organization. The global expansion is a new development for the whole organization, so the company can use the intranet database as mentioned in chapter: 10, computer aided communication to enable “organization-wide information networks to communicate with each other” (Robbins, Judge, 2007, p.378, para. 3). The Team D also came up with a plan to request...