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Mentor Question Responses
Response to question 1
The mentor response for this question emphasizes on the importance of team harmony and spirit. As mentioned in the response, a cordial relationship among the team members makes work pleasurable. The chapter 5 of our textbook, titled ‘managing groups and teams’ highlights the fact that group experience contributes to the growth of the individual team member. As the response indicates, there are good and bad things in every team. However, there is always a learning experience when you work together as a group. We can find out how our strengths complement others, and how our weaknesses pull down the overall productivity of the group. While working in a group, it is not just enough to have an understanding about the goals of the group and the individual members of the group. It is equally important to find out what strengths of yours could contribute towards those goals and help your team members.
Response to question 1 (ii)
The response shows how forming a relationship among the members of the group help the overall objectives of the team. It also stresses on the leadership and the cohesion among the group. The response states that as a group everyone chipped in with their contribution, and when one team member was unable to deliver, others made up for it. This elucidates how avoiding process losses such as social loafing is important to the productivity of a team. The skill versus will is an important point made in the response. As Bauer opines, the member selection for a group should not be made based on competence alone, but should be based on abilities such as working with others.
Response to question 3
The mentor response states that self-fulfillment is the biggest motivation for performance. The fact that he gets to know people and in the process build relationships, also provided him the required motivation. The people working around him and their positivity and exuberance too help him stay motivated. Thus, his self-actualization needs and his belongingness needs are his main motivators. If we apply Herzberg’s two-factor principles here, we can say his co- worker relations and working conditions (hygiene factors)help to decrease job satisfaction, and his need for achievement and recognition (motivator factors), help to increase his job satisfaction. Both the intrinsic and extrinsic factors of an individual help him in his work and keep him motivated. Identifying these factors is essential for a person to be satisfied with his job and perform it wholeheartedly.
Works Cited
Bauer and Erdogan. Organizational Behavior. New York, 2010. Print.
