Group Communication Function Analysis

Group Communication Functions Analysis Evaluation Form

The group I decided to observe it is my work team at the Assessment Center. I selected them because of the variety of leaderships, problems and solving solutions we encounter. A week ago we had our monthly meeting, in which the goal was to grow personally in our job environment and to implement that growth to our team-work. This group was conformed of ten people, an outsider speaker Mr. John Victory professor at LCC of "Diversity in the work place", our Director Becky Stimpson, two supervisors and us the co-workers. Members are ranging in age 19 – 50; mixed religions and cultural backgrounds. The meeting was the continuation of other team building activities in which all of the attendants
Cohesiveness is the act of being closely connected and to work together as a group. For example, my group had a connection between ideas and feelings that everybody felt at the moment. The group was supportive to the problems that were brought to the circle of work members. For example, we all agreed that we needed to be acknowledged and to have some respect for our feelings in order to release some tension between co-workers. This group has many leaders in which each individual has different ideas, where we need to be listened and respect for our opinions. In different meetings, as put as an example, we were judge because of different opinions and different perceptions of what was said by our supervisors. This time we had the chance to express our opinions and ideas, everybody felt connected and we all agreed. In order to improve the cohesiveness of the group, I recommend that each member participate, so their thoughts, ideas, and opinions are addressed and fully understood by
The Assessment Center is a very diverse group, where you follow norms and regulations. We get paid to attend the meeting, so that makes it mandatory. In this meeting I observed that we all follow the rules, some better than others, because we have our boss who rules at the center it hard to break the standards. However we don't all have the same culture and traditions. We have some South Americans, including myself in this cultural category, in which time is relevant. We don't arrive on time. Because of the cohesiveness of the group some times is accepted, but rules are rules, they are made to follow them. In contrast American norms are more severe, so we started the meeting immediately. I think more norms should be established at the meeting, I will recommend more punctuality from other co-workers; international people should be aware of their environment and adjust to such