Assignments for week Nov 07 -Nov 11.

Assignments for week Nov 07 -Nov 11.

Note: Please complete the Thursdays and Fridays assignments first. Please ask me ASAP if there is any confusion/doubt. Lets try to finish everything before Diwali or as soon as possible as we have only 5 assignments for this week.

I-Module 2: Introduction to Team Dynamics

Teachers Note and reading material:

Team leadership week to cheque in.So we shouldn't underestimate the power group dynamicsin impacting the effectiveness of teamwork.That's what this week is all about.We will be covering team conflict,emotional intelligence is applied to teams and team motivation.Your to do list.Read Thompson Book Chapter eight and there's a couple readings in the HBRBook.One starts on page 95 and the other on page 165.And please view the week two lecture andthe video on team motivation and for assignments.Please complete discussion B post by Saturday andcomment on someone else's post by Sunday and you're reading Synopsisjournal B.As always, please contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

Lecture: Mandatory read

Team leadership, week two team dynamics. Learning objectives for this weekinclude types of team conflict, ways to manage team conflict, emotionalintelligence for teams, and strategies for increasing team motivation. TheThompson text describes three primary types of team conflict, relationshipconflict, task conflict, and process conflict.Team conflict relating to relationships involves disagreements based onpersonal and social issues that are probably not related to work. Thisinvolves emotional conflict about things that are rooted in anger orperhaps relating to personality clashes or ego. This type of conflict ismore exhausting than the other types of conflict. So how do you know ifrelationship conflict is impacting your team? Observe how often membersget angry while on the team.How much tension really exists on the team? Conflict relating to tasks iswhat is sometimes called cognitive conflict. It's not necessarilypersonal, like relationship conflict. Task conflict might involve teammembers heatedly discussing whether an idea has merit.How is conflict relating to tasks measured? Observe how much time is spenton dialogue involving differences of opinions. Is it commonplace forconflict to arise when discussing ideas? And finally, team conflictrelating to process is focused around duty strategy and resources.For this type of conflict, one would look at disagreements between membersabout who's doing what or the team not on the same page on how to approacha task. It's important to remember conflict isn't necessarily negative.Task conflict can have a positive result on productivity in settings,where a task is particularly complex and if the team members arecollectively able to process information with one another.For a task conflict to be beneficial for a team, it also requires teammembers to be able to express themselves in a productive manner.Relationship conflict, on the other hand, really messes up the task work,because the team members are most likely to be caught up in powerstruggles or personality conflicts, which leave them with little energy todeal with the tasks productively. An important tip teams that have beenable to establish trust with one another early on usually handle conflictmore productively.So how can team conflict be managed? It is very important for leaders toeducate members as to the choices they have for dealing with conflict. Wecannot assume that individual team members have effective tools or skillswithin their professional experience to manage conflict. This model basedon work by Rust Belt and colleagues identifies four choices that teammembers have for dealing with conflict. You might recognize thesestrategies in your personal life.You can see that the top row denotes more destructive strategies, such asavoidance of an issue or attacking a fellow team member. The bottom row ismore constructive. The first column you may note includes more passivestrategies, whereas the right hand column involves active strategies.Clearly, the intersection between active and constructive results in the

most effective way to deal with conflict, which is to engage and beproactive.The strategy of naming and understanding these choices and making it clearto team members that they have alternatives for addressing difficultsituation is an excellent strategy for managing conflict. Often, simpleawareness of one's behavior in conflict situations is the first step inbehavior change. Another strategy is the Wageman and Donnenfeld ConflictIntervention Model. This model can be useful for improving the quality ofconflict resolution.Depending on the need, team members can help by changing the structure ofthe team. Leaders could offer performance coaching, such as skill buildingand needed areas, or leaders could arrange for conflict coaching, such asteam building exercises or set up individual-focused intervention focusingon specific members behavior. Utilizing emotional intelligence is anotherway to address team dynamics.As you're probably aware of the study of emotional intelligence focuses onbeing aware of emotions and regulating them. Team emotional intelligencetakes that a step further and considers emotions of individual members ofthe team, the whole team, and emotions of other entities the teaminteracts with or is influenced by. So how did teams become moreemotionally intelligent? Druskatt and Wolff focus on norms that createawareness of emotions norms or rules for behavior can be introduced andchampioned by group leaders at these different levels in an effort to maketeams more emotionally intelligent. Be sure to take a look at the greatsuggestions for norm setting found in the HBR book. And finally, regardingstrategies for increasing team motivation, please watch the video 4 Waysto Motivate Your Team.

Module Objective:

At the end of this module students will be able to:

1. Summarize types of team conflict. (CO 2)

2. Illustrate ways to manage team conflict.(CO 2)

3. Describe how emotional intelligence concepts apply to team dynamics. (CO 2)

4. Describe strategies for increasing team motivation. (CO 2)

Please Read/watch carefully for all module 2 assignments.

Thompson Book: Chapter8: Managing Team Conflict (M 1, 2)

HBR/On Teams Book: How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight (165-181) (M 2)

HBR/On Teams Book: Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups (95-116) (M 3)

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Video: 4 Ways to Motivate Your Team (Alexander Street, a ProQuest Company)Links to an external site.Additional reading:

- Produced bySeven Dimensions,InInsights and Strategies(Melbourne, Victoria:Seven Dimensions,2019)

4 Ways to Motivate Your TeamLinks to an external site.-Thompson Book:Chapter 8: Managing Team Conflict

-HBR/On Teams Book: How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight (165-181)

-HBR/On Teams Book: Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups (95-116)

Assignment#1: Due on Nov 09 Thursday, 10 pm EST USA.Discussion item: Please follow the rubric.The HBR text states: a team with emotional intelligent members does not necessarily make for an emotionally intelligent group. Discuss differences between individual emotional intelligence and team emotional intelligence. Describe an example of a team without strong emotional intelligence.(M 3)

Assignment#2: Due on Nov 10 Friday, 10 PM EST USA.

Please Reply to Andrews post below as per the tips

Tips for replying to the postings of your classmates include:

expand or clarify a point made in the answer

offer an additional argument to support position

identify passages where you think the writer misunderstood a concept or applied it incorrectly

disagree with a point or position made in an answer (please be constructive and respectful)

Assignment#3: Due on Nov 10 Friday, 10 PM EST USA.

Please Reply to Meganss post below as per the tips

Assignment#4: Due on Nov 11 Saturday, 11.59 pm EST USA.

Please write a Reading synopsis Journal B as per the instruction and the rubric below--

Instruction (Transcript of Audio below):

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You're probably thinking, what is a reading synopsis journal?Well, the journal is intended to promote comprehension andapplication of the required weekly reading.It'll also serve as a source for your professional toolkit inthe area of team leadership.For each item on the prompt, you will identify the prompt number(such as A-1, for Journal A, prompt #1) in the first column. Forthe second column, you will cut and paste the topic name andplace on a rowThe third column will contain a synopsis of the material in theform of bullet points or an outline with brief descriptions. Usequotation marks for direct passages.The synopsis should give the reader enough information to have aminimum of basic understanding of the topic.The fourth column will contain the reference information foreach topic, source, page number, et cetera. The fifth column isfor your thoughts, comments, and critiques of the material. Howwill you use this in the real world? Remarks are needed in thiscolumn for at least half of the entries each week.What kind of remarks? Well, do you agree or disagree, and why?Is the information useful, and why? Can you apply it to a pastexperience that you've had in a team?This is really the cornerstone of the reading synopsis journalbecause this is an opportunity to reflect and make meaning ofthe material from this course. Once you graduate, it's reallyhard to keep track of all the material and information you'velearned. It's hoped that this reading synopsis journalwill provide notes you can refer to for when you need them themost.Your final assignment in this class will require you to come upwith best practices and planning for a team. You will be able togo back and look at all of your weekly reading synopsis journalentries to see if there's material you can use in that finalassignment. The last column, which is optional, is for thispurpose. If you take a look at the final assignment for thisclass, you will see there are multiple sections you will writeabout. The last column on the RSJ form is provided to give you

an opportunity to prepare for writing about these requiredcomponents. For instance, the fourth prompt on your first RSJcovers multicultural teams. You will see on the final assignmentthat component #8 is considerations related to team diversity.You could choose to identify this in the last column so it willbe easier for you to find this content when it comes time towrite your paper.Hope this helps.

II. Module-2: Overview & Tasks for Justice

Introduction: In this module, you will explore key terms related to social justice, including different types/theories of justice itself.

The textbook chapters assigned for this module are fairly theoretical and dense. Please do not be discouraged if you find some of the content difficult to understand. It is less important that you memorize and understand every single word instead, you are encouraged to focus on making sure you take notes that address the following:

What are the definitions of distributive, retributive, restorative, and transformative justice?

Take note of other concepts that are mentioned and discussed regularly in each chapter and/or across chapters: contract, crime, harm, etc.

Give particular attention to the "modern inquiries in philosophy" section of Chapter 2.

The review questions at the end of each chapter are excellent opportunities to assess how well you've made meaning of what you've read.

Do not worry about memorizing every single name and book mentioned. Instead, focus on the concepts being described.

Note: In Chapter 3, the authors use the word "desert," which, as spelled, technically refers to a barren area that experiences little rain fall. What they actually mean is "dessert" as in a sugary treat, referring specifically to the

Define and differentiate between basic conceptions of social justice.(CO 1)

Define and differentiate between distributive, retributive, restorative, and transformative justice.(CO 1)

Read and watch:

According tothis workload estimatorLinks to an external site., reviewing these materials will take approximately six (6) hours to complete.

Course text: Chs. 2-5 inSocial Justice: Theories, Issues, and Movements.(101 pages)(MO 1,2)

Klau, M. (2014). Social justice leadership in living systems.TEDxHGSE.(10:08 mins)(MO 1)

Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0YbXHMANCILinks to an external site.Assignment#5: Due on Nov 10 Friday, 11 PM EST USA.

Please help me for the prework for the below quiz so that I can login and take the quiz from my end.

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