WEEK 2 Dynamics MOON LANDING TASK

1. Kaylee's face after a slightly dissapointing first week trial, managed to perform both well in the task and as a team. In reference to Steiner's model the potential in our group was limited, all of the personalities in the group were extravert, loud and controlling which should in theory lead to little teamwork and more confrontation. The process losses did indeed reflect this by proving that without reflectors and people willing to listen progress was slow with arguments occuring regularly. However team work managed to prevail with many persons in the group eventually realising that with such a short time limit, wasting precious time would prove fatal.

2. I believe the group of 7 which we had in week two could have been too big with such a small task. Ideally a group size of 2/3 would be ideal for this task; 2 handling and producing the product and one reflecting on the progress and providing instruction. IN addition if the task was larger ie. having to launch the eggs into the air aswell as save them the group could then effectively be split into a joined team working on seperate parts of the design.

Carron's model displays for Kaylee's face that the member attributes are very similar and repeated, with a group structure that is very unbalanced in terms of differing personalities. With a group enviroment that was providing pressure on the team the cohesion was at first limited and only when members were able to start listening to each others ideas and resolve issues did effect communication/ cohesion begin.

Steiners model displays the potential group productivity to be quite low, with all the members being so similar however with process losses of certain members turning very reflective due to competition within the group others members were allowed the chance to voice ideas. Actual group productivity should have been lower than what the outcome percieved.

3. Squad size produces advantages and disadvantages for all team. Using example b Aston villa with a known decreased player squad size and reduced value of players would most likely perform better with a smaller more cohesive team than Man Utd. Man Utd with high profile players and large squad size do have plenty of talent in case of player injuries etc. however playing time that members may recieve could be much less and therefore not providing players with sufficient time to bond and train/ play as a team rather than just training.