Reflections about syndicate group work
"I always had a different opinion to our group leader, but he always made me give in, even when I was not at all persuaded by his arguments, I can't explain how that happened". This statement made by one of my group members is quite revealing. While she recognizes the dominance of our leader´, she is perplexed because she fails to understand how she was manipulated.
How did he do it? Was it only his dominance or were there perhaps Machiavellic elements in his behaviour who made his opinion prevail? And was it beneficial to our groups' effectiveness? I will try to solve this question in the main part of the essay.
First, I will give a short overview of our groups' development and then examine critically the reasons for our moderate level of motivation, basing my argument on Vroom´s expectancy theory.
The development of our team could be best described with a combination of one element of the "Five Stage-Model" of Tuckman and......
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